Where's My Country?

Introduction (Disclaimers)
Annexations and Occupations | Country Splits and Unifications | Moving Countries | Roving Clubs
'host' index | 'guest' index
overview of European 'double' champions
About this document

Introduction

In the course of history, many football clubs have competed in the league and/or cup structure of more than one country, whether due to annexation or occupation (including colonial rule), or because their country split or unified (or both). Some countries, in particular Poland, have had their borders moved by hundreds of kilometres in the twentieth century, with obvious consequences for the clubs in the areas involved. In addition, some clubs have opted to play across the border, in particular in the United Kingdom where the football associations do not actually correspond to independent states, but also elsewhere.

This file aims to highlight various aspects of such performances abroad, organised according to the aforementioned four types of moving across borders (or borders being moved):

1. Annexations and Occupations
2. Country Splits and Unifications
3. Moving Countries
4. Roving Clubs

Note that these four categories are not entirely disjoint; in particular the distinction between the first two may be contentious in some cases (e.g. the Baltic countries, which for practical reasons are discussed together with all other Soviet republics in the second category); likewise between the first and the third, and one may debate the voluntarity of Derry City's choice to play in the Republic of Ireland rather than the section of the island that did not separate from the United Kingdom. The last category also includes a short section on currently Greek clubs that were founded in current Turkey; in this case it was not the borders moving but the clubs (or rather the Greek community on which they were based).

At the end of this introduction, two alternative indexes are given, one by 'host' country and one by 'guest' country.

The focus is on teams doing well across the border (winning leagues or cups, or reaching far in either) but examples of less successful clubs are given as well where it seemed justified (and the relevant information was available). Therefore, treatment of e.g. constituent republics of the former Soviet Union or Yugoslavia is not 'equal'; dominant regions (Russia and the Ukraine for the Soviet Union, Serbia and Croatia for Yugoslavia) obtain a less detailed presentation than the other regions.
An overview of European clubs winning championships in two different countries (according to customary definitions in world football) is given at the end.

In the results overviews throughout the document (the parts in pre-formatted text), 'foreign' winners of a competition (whether championship or cup) are given in bold face, runners-up in italics (with one exception from this convention, in the section on overseas clubs in the French cup).
In addition, the text sections have a number of clubs shown in bold face to stress their performances, according to the discretion of the author. The text sections also have non-English words shown in italics, as customary in English language texts.

Disclaimers

Given the topic, some political background here and there is unavoidable; no offence is meant to any of the countries or ethnic groups involved though the subjective point of view of the author may shine through at one or two places.

In all section and subsection headings, we refer to current and past names of countries (or regions which de facto (if not de iure) have or had independent football competitions, e.g. Northern Cyprus and Kosovo); this does of course not necessarily mean that the entire country or region was part of the football structure of another one but (apart from cases under the fourth category of 'roving clubs') at least some part nowadays within its borders. More precise information is given in the text. Also note the use of contemporary notions may be anachronistic in texts discussing historical situations.

Inclusion or non-inclusion of various cases may be debatable. For instance, the one-season (1999/00) appearance of Gozo FC in the Maltese top division is not included, although the island of Gozo has its own FA and an independent league structure (in which Gozo FC never played), as the fact that Gozo is an integral part of Malta has not been in doubt since 1800 (and football came to the islands much later), and its FA has never entertained any thought of independent membership of FIFA or UEFA (and would stand no chance of obtaining it). Likewise, there is no separate mention of e.g. the performances of the Canary Islands clubs Las Palmas and Tenerife in the Spanish football structure, nor of the Ceuta and Melilla sides (as these clubs have never played outside of Spain), but the single season of Atlético Tetuán in the Primera División is mentioned as the town is now in Morocco.

Additional information and factual corrections (whether on football, geography or history) are very much welcomed by the author; political comments will be ignored.

Index by 'Host' Country

NB: 'guest' countries in alphabetical order between brackets.

Index by 'Guest' Country

NB: 'host' countries in alphabetical order between brackets.

Abkhazia (Georgia)
'Africa' (Singapore)
Algeria (France)
Andorra (Spain)
Angola (Portugal)
Antigua (Guyana)
Armenia (Soviet Union)
Aruba (Netherlands Antilles)
Australia (Singapore)
Austria (Germany (type 1) | Germany (type 4) | Hungary)
Azerbaijan (Armenia | Soviet Union)
Bangladesh (Pakistan)
Barbados (Guyana)
Belarus (Poland | Soviet Union)
Belgium (Germany)
Bermuda (USA)
Bonaire (Netherlands Antilles)
Bophuthatswana (South Africa)
Bosnia and Herzegovina (Croatia | Yugoslavia)
Brunei (Malaysia | Singapore)
Bulgaria (Romania)
Cambodia (Singapore)
Canada (USA)
Cape Verde (Portugal)
China (Hongkong | Singapore)
Ciskei (South Africa)
Croatia (Italy | Yugoslavia)
Cyprus (Greece)
Czech Republic (Czechoslovakia (1918-1938) | Czechoslovakia (1944-1993) | Germany (type 1) | Germany (type 4))
Denmark (Germany)
East Germany (Germany)
East Timor (Indonesia)
Egypt (Syria)
England (Scotland | Wales)
Eritrea (Ethiopia)
Estonia (Latvia | Soviet Union)
Finland (Sweden)
France (Germany (type 1) | Germany (type 3))
French Guyana (France | Surinam)
Georgia (Soviet Union)
Germany (Netherlands | Switzerland)
Goa (India)
Greece (Bulgaria | Turkey)
Guadeloupe (France)
Guinea Bissau (Portugal)
Hongkong (China)
Hungary (Poland)
Ifni (Morocco)
India (Maldives)
Indonesia (Singapore)
(Republic of) Ireland ((All) Ireland)
Italy (Yugoslavia)
Japan (Singapore)
Kazakhstan (Soviet Union)
Kosovo (Albania | Yugoslavia)
Kyrgyzstan (Soviet Union)
Latvia (Soviet Union)
Liechtenstein (Austria | Switzerland)
Lithuania (Germany | Poland | Soviet Union)
Luxembourg (Germany)
Macedonia (Bulgaria | Yugoslavia)
Malaysia (China | Singapore)
Martinique (France)
Mayotte (Comoros | France | Reunion)
Moldova (Romania | Soviet Union)
Monaco (France)
Montenegro (Serbia and Montenegro | Yugoslavia)
Morocco (France | Spain)
Mozambique (Portugal)
Namibia (South Africa)
New Caledonia (France)
New Zealand (Australia)
Northern Cyprus ((All) Cyprus)
Northern Ireland (England | (Republic of) Ireland)
North Korea (Korea)
North Vietnam (Vietnam)
North Yemen (Yemen)
Palestine (Chile | Egypt | Israel | Jordan)
Philippines (China)
Poland (Austria | Germany (type 1) | Germany (type 3) | Russia)
Puerto Rico (USA)
Reunion (France)
Romania (Hungary (type 1) | Hungary (type 3))
Russia (Finland (type 3) | Finland (type 4) | Germany | Japan | Lithuania | Soviet Union)
Saar (France | Germany)
Saint Lucia (Guyana)
San Marino (Italy)
Scotland (England)
Serbia (Croatia | Hungary (type 1) | Hungary (type 3) | Serbia and Montenegro | Yugoslavia)
Sikkim (India)
Singapore (Malaysia | Philippines)
Slovakia (Czechoslovakia (1918-1938) | Czechoslovakia (1944-1993) | Hungary (type 1) | Hungary (type 3))
Slovenia (Hungary | Italy | Yugoslavia)
South Korea (Japan | Korea)
South Ossetia (Georgia)
South Vietnam (Vietnam)
South Yemen (Yemen)
Sri Lanka (Maldives)
Switzerland (Italy)
Tahiti (French Polynesia) (France)
Tajikistan (Soviet Union)
Thailand (China | Maldives | Singapore)
Tibet (China)
Transkei (South Africa)
Trieste (Italy | Yugoslavia)
Trinidad and Tobago (Guyana)
Tunisia (France)
Turkmenistan (Soviet Union)
Ukraine (Austria | Czechoslovakia | Germany | Hungary (type 1) | Hungary (type 3) | Poland | Romania | Russia | Soviet Union)
USA (Guyana)
Uzbekistan (Soviet Union)
Venda (South Africa)
Wales (England)
Western New Guinea (Indonesia)
Western Sahara (Morocco)
Zanzibar (Tanzania)

There also is a short discussion of some special cases in Africa (including brief mentions of Biafra, British Cameroon, Ruanda-Urundi and Somaliland), mostly dating back to colonial times:

French Northern Africa | French Western Africa | North and South Rhodesia, Nyasaland | Stanley Pool

Annexations and Occupations

Just before and during World War II, several countries, in particular Germany and Hungary, increased their territory dramatically, forcing clubs from other countries to enter their competitions. Some of these enjoyed great success - in particular Rapid Wien and Nagyváradi AC (known in Romanian as CA Oradea) who won league titles in the invading country. Also, Korean clubs were successful in Japan just before the second World War. Apart from shortlived war-time occupations, this section also includes various cases of annexations lasting for decades and a few colonial curiosities. Note that the extension of the Soviet Union by the three Baltic republics as part of the Hitler-Stalin pact is discussed under the disintegration of the Soviet Union, and the special case of Karelia under border moves.

Germany

Starting with the 1938 Anschluß of Austria, clubs started entering the German championship and cup competitions from countries that had organised their own before. The other countries involved were the Czech Republic (first the Sudetenland, later also 'German' clubs (and army or air force selections) from the Protektorat Böhmen and Mähren, which also had its own league for the 'Czech' clubs), France (the Alsace and Lorraine regions, which had been German prior to World War I), Luxembourg and parts of Poland (including the area around Lwów which is now in the Ukraine; note that the regions which were part of the German Reich during the interbellum are discussed under 'moving borders').

Austrian clubs in the German football structure 1938-1944

After the 1938 Anschluß, the Austrian league was incorporated as Gauliga 17 (Ostmark) in the German football structure, which culminated in an annual, national championship playoff between the champions from the Gauligen. Only once did the Austrian representatives fail to reach the semifinals of the German championship, and even then (1944) the Austrian team lost to the eventual winners by the odd goal in five in the quarterfinals. Rapid won both the German championship and cup once, Vienna won one cup and reached the championship final, which Admira also managed once (suffering a record final defeat in the process).

Championship (Deutsche Meisterschaft)

1939: finalists: Admira Wien             (0-9 vs Schalke 04)
1940: semifinal: Rapid Wien              (1-2 aet vs Dresdner SC; Rapid
                                          won playoff for 3rd place vs
                                          Waldhof Mannheim (4-4 aet, 5-2))
1941: winners:   Rapid Wien              (4-3 vs Schalke 04)
1942: finalists: Vienna                  (0-2 vs Schalke 04)
1943: semifinal: Vienna                  (1-2 vs FV Saarbrücken; Vienna 
                                          lost playoff for 3rd place vs
                                          Holstein Kiel (1-4))
1944: quarterf.: Vienna                  (2-3 vs Dresdner SC)

Cup (von-Tschammer-Pokal)

1938: winners:   Rapid Wien              (3-1 vs FSV Frankfurt)
      semifinal: Wiener Sport-Club       (2-3 vs FSV Frankfurt)
      quarterf.: Vienna                  (1-3 vs 1.FC Nürnberg)
                 Grazer SC               (1-6 vs Wiener Sport-Club)
      1/8 final: Admira Wien             (0-6 vs Vienna)
                 Austro-Fiat Wien        (1-5 vs Rapid Wien)
                 Austria Wien            (2-3 vs Grazer SC)
                 Wacker Wien             (0-1 vs Wiener Sport-Club)
NB: the German and Austrian teams had played separately until the
    quarterfinals, for which 4 teams from both areas qualified.
1939: semifinal: Rapid Wien              (0-1 vs 1.FC Nürnberg)
                 Wacker Wien             (1-1 aet, 2-2 aet, 0-0 aet, lost on
                                          draw vs Waldhof Mannheim)
1940: semifinal: Rapid Wien              (0-3 vs Dresdner SC)
      quarterf.: Wiener Sport-Club       (1-2 vs Fortuna Düsseldorf)
      1/8 final: Wacker Wien             (1-5 vs Wiener Sport-Club)
1941: semifinal: Admira Wien             (2-4 vs Dresdner SC)
      quarterf.: Austria Wien            (1-4 vs Schalke 04)
      1/16 fin.: Rapid Wien              (3-5 vs Admira Wien)
1942: 1/16 fin.: Vienna                  (0-4 vs NSTG Falkenau)
1943: winners:   Vienna                  (3-2 vs LSV Groß Hamburg)

Belgian clubs in the German football structure 1940-1944

The eastern Belgian region around Eupen and Malmedy (where German is spoken) was annexed by Germany during the second World War. Nothing is known about participations by the existing local clubs (such as FC Eupen, founded 1920, and La Jeunesse d'Eupen, founded 1919 as Verein für Jugend und Volksspiele Eupen as a merger between two older clubs (FC Fortuna Eupen and Eupener Ballspielverein, both founded 1908) and renamed to the French version of their name in 1920) in the German league structure during the war.

Championship  

No data available.

Cup  

No data available.

Czech clubs in the German football structure 1938-1944

The Sudetenland was incorporated in the German Reich on Sep 29, 1938. From the 1940/41 season on, also clubs from the Protektorat Böhmen und Mähren, roughly corresponding to the remainder (apart from the Sudetenland) of the current Czech Republic, entered the German league structure. Note that nearly all clubs listed below were either army (Militär SV) or air force (LSV = Luftwaffen Sportverein) teams or artificial sports units (NSTG = Nationalsozialistische Turngemeinde) enforced by the nazis; only Warnsdorfer FK existed as a club prior to the German takeover (they were forcibly merged into NSTG Warnsdorf in 1939/40 and relegated from the top level of the Sportbereich 18 Sudetenland as reigning champions).

Note that DFC Prag played in the German championship 1902/03.

City name correspondences: 
German           Czech
Brünn            Brno
Brüx             Most
Falkenau         Sokolov
Graslitz         Kraslice
Olmütz           Olomouc
Prag             Praha
Warnsdorf        Varnsdorf
Witkowitz        Vítkovice

Championship (Deutsche Meisterschaft)

The following clubs from the current Czech Republic played in the
Endrunde of the German championship.

1939: group st.: Warnsdorfer FK          (4  0 0 4  5-16  0)
1940: group st.: NSTG Graslitz           (4  0 1 3  7-22  1)
1941: group st.: NSTG Prag               (4  0 1 3  3- 8  1)
1942: qual. rd.: LSV Olmütz              (0-1 vs Vienna)
1943: prel. rd.: Militär SV Brünn        (2-5 vs Vienna)
1944: qual. rd.: Militär SV Brünn        (3-6 vs Vienna)
      qual. rd.: NSTG Brüx               (0-8 vs 1.FC Nürnberg)
      
Cup (von-Tschammer-Pokal)

1940: 1/16 fin.: NSTG Witkowitz          (1-9 vs Wiener Sport-Club)
1942: 1/8 final: NSTG Falkenau           (1-4 vs Blau-Weiß Berlin)
1943: 1/8 final: Militär SV Brünn        (1-5 vs 1.FC Nürnberg)
      1/16 fin.: NSTG Brüx               (0-14 vs Vienna)

French clubs in the German football structure 1940-1944

During the war, Germany occupied the French regions Elsaß (Alsace) and Lothringen (Lorraine), which were under dispute between the two countries (or rather cultural entities, as Germany as a state is a more recent invention) for centuries (clubs from the areas played in (southern) Germany prior to the first World War). Alsatian clubs obtained their own Gauliga, while those from Lorraine (FV Metz, TSG Saargemünd and TSG Merlenbach) were included in the Westmark with teams from the Saar and Rheinland-Pfalz. FV Metz were runners-up in the Westmark each of the three seasons they played (1941/42, 1942/43 and 1943/44) but never qualified for the Endrunde. All clubs involved played before in the French league structure, though of course under different names, e.g. FV Metz as FC Metz, FC Mülhausen 93 as FC Mulhouse and SG SS Straßburg as SC Red Star de Strasbourg (not to be confused with their better known town rivals RC Strasbourg, who were known as Rasen SC Straßburg during German occupation).

City name correspondences: 
German           French
Merlenbach       Merlebach
Metz             Metz
Mülhausen        Mulhouse
Saargemünd       Sarreguemines
Straßburg        Strasbourg

Championship (Deutsche Meisterschaft)

The following clubs from current France played in the Endrunde of 
the German championship.

1941: group st.: FC Mülhausen 93         (6  0 1 5  9-28  1)
1942: quarterf.: SG SS Straßburg         (0-6 vs Schalke 04)
1943: prel. rd.: FC Mülhausen 93         (1-5 vs FV Saarbrücken)
1944: 1/8 final: FC Mülhausen 93         (3-5 vs KSV FV/Altenkessel Saarbrücken)

NB: FV Saarbrücken was the contemporary name of current 1.FC Saarbrücken;
    they entered into a 'war-time union' with Altenkessel in 1943/44.

Cup (von-Tschammer-Pokal)
 
1941: 1/8 final: FV Metz                 (0-3 vs 1.SV Jena)
      1/16 fin.: FC Mülhausen 93         (0-4 vs Stuttgarter Kickers)
1942: 1/8 final: SG SS Straßburg         (1-15 vs 1860 München)
      1/16 fin.: FC Mülhausen 93         (0-2 vs VfB Stuttgart)
1943: 1/16 fin.: FC Mülhausen 93         (1-4 vs VfR Mannheim)

Luxembourg clubs in the German football structure 1940-1944

Football clubs from Luxembourg were incorporated in the Bezirksklasse Gruppe West within the Sportbereich Moselland. In the first season teams from the Grand Duchy entered, 1941/42, FV Stadt Düdelingen won this league and then triumphed in a playoff against the winners of the Bezirksklasse Gruppe Ost (Eintracht Kreuznach), earning entry to the qualifying round of the German championship. One year later, in 1942/43, FK Niederkorn won the same group but lost the final of the Moselland championship 4-5 on aggregate against TuS Neuendorf (after winning the first leg 3-0). In 1943/44, Schwarz-Weiß Esch were the winners of the western group and played the Moselland final, but after winning 4-1 at home they were destroyed 0-8 by TuS Neuendorf in the second leg in Koblenz.
So FV Stadt Düdelingen are the only club from current Luxembourg to have played in the Endrunde of the German championship; they also reached the cup quarterfinals once during the war.

All clubs involved played before in the Luxembourg league structure, though of course under different names, e.g. FV Stadt Düdelingen as Stade Dudelange, Schwarz-Weiß Esch as Jeunesse d'Esch and FK Niederkorn as Progrès Niedercorn. Other renamed Luxembourg clubs to play at the highest German league level during this time were Moselland Luxemburg (Spora Luxembourg), SV Düdelingen (US Dudelange) and Schwarz-Weiß Wasserbillig (Jeunesse Wasserbillig, who did not reach the highest level in their home country until 1958 but played in the 1943/44 Bezirksklasse Gruppe West of the Sportbereich Moselland).

City name correspondences: 
German           French           Luxembourgish
Düdelingen       Dudelange        Diddeléng
Esch             Esch             Esch
Luxemburg        Luxembourg       Lëtzebuerg
Niederkorn       Niedercorn       Nidderkuer
Wasserbillig     Wasserbillig     Waasserbëlleg

Championship (Deutsche Meisterschaft)

1942: qual. rd.: FV Stadt Düdelingen     (0-2 vs Schalke 04)

Cup (von-Tschammer-Pokal)

1942: quarterf.: FV Stadt Düdelingen     (0-7 vs 1860 München)
1943: 1/16 fin.: FK Niederkorn           (0-3 vs Spfr. Katernberg)

Polish clubs in the German football structure 1940-1944

This section only refers to the areas of (current) Poland which were not part of the German Reich prior to World War II; a great part of current Poland, in particularly on the northern coast (Pommern) and the southwestern mining area (Schlesien) was part of Germany long before World War II (and Poland stretched far further east - see the section on Moving Countries). Likewise, clubs from Westpreußen (e.g. from Elbing/Elbląg), the Freistaat Danzig (an autonomous entity consisting of the harbour city Danzig/Gdańsk with its suburbs such as Neufahrwasser/Nowy Port) and Ostpreußen (with as major city Königsberg/Kaliningrad, nowadays part of Russia) entered the German football championship as a matter of course since the beginning of the twentieth century.
The relevant areas were incorporated as Warthegau (with as main cities Posen (which had belonged to Germany before the first World War but had fallen to Poland afterwards) and Litzmannstadt) and Generalgouvernement (with as main cities Warschau, Krakau, Lemberg (currently Lviv in the Ukraine), Radom and Lublin).

Note that like in the Czech case, most clubs listed below were either army or air force units or German police teams (OrPo = Ordnungspolizei); DWM denoted Deutsche Waffen- und Munitionsfabriken.

City name correspondences: 
German           Polish
Krakau           Kraków
Litzmannstadt    Łódź
Posen            Poznań
Warschau         Warszawa

Championship (Deutsche Meisterschaft)

1941: qual. rd.: LSV Posen               (2-2 vs Preußen Danzig, lost on draw)
1942: prel. rd.: OrPo Litzmannstadt      (1-8 vs VfB Königsberg)
      qual. rd.: LSV Boelecke Krakau     (2-5 vs Planitzer SC)
1943: 1/8 final: OrPo Warschau           (1-5 vs VfB Königsberg)
      prel. rd.: BSG DWM Posen           (1-3 vs OrPo Warschau)
1944: qual. rd.: LSV Mölders Krakau      (1-4 vs VfB Königsberg)
      qual. rd.: BSG DWM Posen           (0-7 vs STC Hirschberg)

Cup (von-Tschammer-Pokal)

1943: 1/16 fin.: Praga Warschau          (3-5 vs Militär SV Brünn)
      1/16 fin.: BSG DWM Posen           (0-4 vs VfB Königsberg)

Ukrainian clubs in the German football structure 1940-1944

During World War II, the region around L'viv (Lemberg, Lwów), which had been Polish during the interbellum but became part of the Soviet Union after the war, was incorporated in the Generalgouvernement. Next to nothing is known about the regional championship of Galizien played between German army teams; in the 1942/43 season, Ostbahn SG Lemberg were leading the league around Christmas with 7 points from 4 matches, ahead of DTSG Lemberg and W.H.-Nachrichten (both 4 points from 3 matches). Independently of that, a West Ukrainian championship was apparently played on 3 occasions, with as champions Ukraina (Lviv) in 1942, Skala (Stryj) in 1943 and Vatra (Drohobych) in 1944.

Hungary

Romania | Serbia | Slovakia | Slovenia | Ukraine

During the second World War, Hungary annexed a number of regions which had belonged to Hungary (as part of the Habsburg Empire) prior to the first World War.

The first team from outside the current borders of Hungary to enter the Hungarian first division was Kassai AC (from Košice/Kassa in Slovakia). Afterwards, various clubs from areas now in Romania or Serbia entered; these areas had large Hungarian minorities and most of the clubs involved presumably had a sizable quantity of ethnically Hungarian players. Most successful were the clubs from Transylvania: Nagyváradi AC (from Oradea/Nagyvárad, close to the Hungarian border) won the Hungarian championship 1943/44 (as the first team from outside Budapest to do so), 13 points clear of Ferencváros and Kolozsvári AC (from Cluj/Kolozsvár), who reached the cup final in the same season. Below all 'foreign' clubs to play in the first Hungarian league division are listed.

Romanian clubs in the Hungarian football structure 1939-1944

Nagyváradi AC (from Oradea/Nagyvárad, close to the Hungarian border) won the Hungarian championship 1943/44 (as the first team from outside Budapest to do so), 13 points clear of Ferencváros and Kolozsvári AC (from Cluj/Kolozsvár), who reached the cup final in the same season. Both clubs had been promoted in 1940/41, Kolozsvári AC as winners of the Erdély (Transylvania) group of the Hungarian second division, and Nagyváradi AC as its champions - NAC had not entered the second division but was recognised as the strongest club from Erdély.
In addition, we mention that Nagybánya were runners-up in the eastern group of the second division 1943/44, missing out on promotion against Szentlőrinci AC.

City name correspondences: 
Hungarian        Romanian
Kolozsvár        Cluj (Cluj-Napoca)
Nagybánya        Baia Mare
Nagyvárad        Oradea

Championship (1st division)

1941/42  5.Nagyváradi AC           30 14  8  8  81-52  36
        13.Kolozsvári AC           30  8  6 16  51-78  22
1942/43  2.Nagyváradi AC           30 19  4  7  85-49  42
        10.Kolozsvári AC           30 11  4 15  60-70  26
1943/44  1.Nagyváradi AC           30 24  1  5  78-36  49
         3.Kolozsvári AC           30 15  6  9  54-45  36
1944/45  2.Nagyváradi AC            3  2  1  0   6- 3   5 
         6.Kolozsvári AC            3  1  2  0   5- 3   4 
NB: the 1944/45 season was abandoned after a few rounds and replaced
    by an (unofficial) Budapest competition in the fall of 1944.

Cup

1944: finalists: Kolozsvári AC           (2-2, 1-3 vs Ferencváros)

Nagyváradi AC (Nagyváradi Atlétikai Club) were founded in 1910. After Transylvania came to Romania (from the Hungarian part of the Habsburg Empire) after the first World War, they were renamed as CA Oradea (Clubul Atletic Oradea). Prior to World War II, the club played at the Romanian top level for six seasons (1932/33 to 1937/38), finishing runners-up in 1934/35. During the last two seasons before World War II, they were at the second level. After the war, the club was renamed Libertatea and joined the top flight in the 1946/47 season (the first official championship in Romania after the war); in 1948 the club was renamed IC Oradea, and as such won the Romanian championship 1948/49, making them one of the few clubs to have won league titles in two currently existing countries.
However, the club itself no more exists. After another name change to Progresul (under which name they still finished third in 1951) the club were relegated in 1954; they bounced back after just one season at the second level (in which they reached the 1955 cup final, losing 3-6 aet vs CCA, the later Steaua Bucureşti) and celebrated their new top flight status by winning the 1955/56 national cup (2-0 vs Energia Metalul Cîmpia Turzii). They were renamed CS Oradea before the 1957/58 season and relegated as such in 1958. After another name change, to CSM Crişana Oradea, they gained promotion back to the top flight in 1962, but were relegated after just one season, while local rivals Crişul (who later became FC Bihor Oradea) were promoted in that same 1962/63 season. Rather than playing at the second level again, Crişana were dissolved.

Kolozsvári AC (Kolozsvári Atlétikai Club) played as CA Cluj (Clubul Atletic Cluj) in the Romanian second division 1934/35 and 1935/36. They lost their second level status following the reduction of the division from six to two regional groups, and played at regional level until World War II. After their success within the Hungarian league structure during the war, they were included in the Romanian top flight 1946/47 under the name Ferar Cluj. As such, they finished 6th in 1946/47 and 9th in 1947/48 before merging into CFR Cluj (the local railway team), who had withdrawn from their second level group halfway through the 1947/48 season. The merger club was named CFR Cluj and took Ferar's place in the top flight but the identity of the railway club. This club won a first ever Romanian league championship as CFR Cluj-Napoca in 2007/08.

Note that another club from Cluj, Universitatea Cluj, moved to Sibiu in 1940, following the Vienna Dictate that transferred a sizable portion of Transylavania including Cluj and Oradea to Hungary. Having finished second in one of the four second level groups (behind Crişana Oradea) in 1939/40, the club entered the Romanian first level as Universitatea Sibiu in 1940/41. Under that name they reached the 1941/42 Romanian cup final (which they lost 1-7 to Rapid Bucureşti; they had earlier lost the 1933/34 final to Ripensia Timişora as Universitatea Cluj and later, after moving back to Cluj in 1945, played two more finals under different names again, losing the 1948/49 final as CSU Cluj to CSCA Bucureşti (later Steaua) and finally winning the trophy in 1964/65 as Ştiinţa Cluj, beating Dinamo Piteşti (later Argeş) in the final).

See also the notes on clubs from the region in the Hungarian football structure during the Habsburg Empire, such as Temesvári Kinizsi, who won regional championships in Hungary during the first World War and then claimed six consecutive national championships (as Chinezul Timişoara) in Romania from 1921/22 to 1926/27 after the region became Romanian.

Serbian clubs in the Hungarian football structure 1939-1944

City name correspondence: 
Hungarian        Serbian
Újvidek          Novi Sad

Championship (1st division)

1941/42 13.Újvideki AC             30 10  5 15  47-86  25
1942/43 11.Újvideki AC             30 10  6 14  52-63  26
1943/44  6.Újvideki AC             30 12  7 11  68-58  31
1944/45 12.Újvidéki AC              2  1  0  1   3- 9   2 
NB: the 1944/45 season was abandoned after a few rounds and replaced
    by an (unofficial) Budapest competition in the fall of 1944.

Novi Sad lies in the Vojvodina, an autonomous province in Serbia with a considerable Hungarian population (but also other ethnic minorities). Újvideki AC were founded in 1910; its home town Novi Sad/Újvidek came to Yugoslavia (from the Habsburg empire) in 1918, and the club were renamed Novisadski AK; as such they reached the semifinals of the 1935/36 championship (played in knock-out format), which they lost 0-1 to Slavija Sarajevo. The club was dissolved in 1944. See also the notes on clubs from the region in the Hungarian football structure during the Habsburg Empire.

Slovak clubs in the Hungarian football structure 1939-1944

City name correspondences: 
Hungarian        Slovak           German
Kassa            Košice           Kaschau
Pozsóny          Bratislava       Pressburg

Championship (1st division)

1939/40 13.Kassai AC               26  5  3 18  29-79  13

Kassai AC (Kassai Atlétikai Club) were founded in 1903; in the 1920s they played in the MLSz (Hungarian) championship in Slovakia (there were three separate federations in Slovakia alone, and more in Bohemia and Moravia), reaching the MLSz Slovak championship final in 1927 (lost 2-4 vs Rapid Bratislava) and 1928/29 (lost 1-2 to Ligeti SC, also from Bratislava).
They joined the eastern section of the Slovak-Lower Carpatian division in 1934/35, one of six second level leagues in Czechoslovakia at the time (the 1935/36 winners, Rusj Užhorod, from a town now in the Ukraine, managed promotion to the top level state league, Státní Liga). After twice finishing third and once second, KAC won this division in 1937/38, but finished sixth and last in the promotion tournament (from which two clubs qualified to the Státní Liga 1938/39).
Slovak football separated at the end of 1938 and set up its own league in 1939, but this did not cover all of current Slovakia: no teams from Košice/Kassa (or other towns close to the Hungarian border such as Komárno/Komárom, Nové Zámky/Érsekújvár or Lučenec/Lósonc) ever joined it, as Hungary annexed the area in 1938. It is unknown where KAC played after their relegation from the Hungarian top flight 1939/40, presumably at the Hungarian second level. They did not reappear after the war; the only Košice club to be included in the Czechoslovak top flight 1945/46 (and the first ever to reach that level) were newly founded ŠK Jednota Košice, and at the second level we only find ŠK Sparta Košice, who merged with Železničiari Košice at the end of that season; this merger club also 'swallowed' ŠK Jednota (meanwhile renamed Dynamo) in 1949 and eventually became FK Lokomotíva Košice.
See also the notes on clubs from the region in the Hungarian football structure during the Habsburg Empire.

Slovenian clubs in the Hungarian football structure 1939-1944

The region of Prekmurje (Muravidék), with as main towns Lendava and Murska Sobota, was occupied by Hungary from 1941 to 1944 (and by Germany during the last year of the war). It appears a club from Lendava, probably identical to or related to current Nafta Lendava, played in a regional Hungarian league also involving clubs from Szombathely, finishing second in their group in 1942. It is not known whether any club from Murska Sobota, whether related to later Slovenian top flight club and 1994/95 cup winners Mura (founded 1924, renamed Mura 05 in 2005) or not, entered the Hungarian football structure. After World War II, the region became part of Yugoslavia.

City name correspondences: 
Hungarian        Slovenian
Lendva           Lendava
Muraszombat      Murska Sobota

Ukrainian clubs in the Hungarian football structure 1939-1944

During the second World War, Hungary also annexed Carpathian Ruthenia (Transcarpathia, Kárpátalja), which during the interbellum had belonged to the Slovakian part of Czechoslovakia, and went to the Soviet Union (more precisely, the Ukrainian Socialist Soviet Republic) afterwards. From this region, at least Ungvári AC and Ungvári Rusznyi (presumably the new name for Rusj Užhorod) played at the second level of the Hungarian league structure. Ungvári AC won promotion to the top level in 1943/44, as winners of the northern group of the second division ahead of Salgótarjáni SE, but their debut season was abandoned after a few rounds in the fall of 1944, with UAC in last position after suffering three losses. The national championship was then replaced by an (unofficial) Budapest league.
Other clubs from the town have played at the top level of the Czechoslovak (Rusj Užhorod) and Ukrainian (Zakarpattya Uzhhorod) league structures.
Beregszász, a town which like Munkács had clubs playing at the second level in Czechoslovakia before the second World War, was represented by one club at the Hungarian second level for one season: Beregszászi FTC finished 15th from 16 clubs in the NB. II Felvidéki csoport (a regional second division group) in 1939/40 and disappeared to the third Hungarian level for the seasons 1940/41 to 1942/43.
See also the notes on clubs from the region in the Hungarian football structure during the Habsburg Empire.

City name correspondences: 
Hungarian        Ukrainian        Slovak           Russian
Beregszász       Berehowe         Berehovo         Beregowo
Munkács          Mukacheve        Mukačevo         Mukachyovo
Ungvár           Uzhhorod         Užhorod          Uzhgorod

Championship (1st division)

1944/45 16.Ungvári AC               3  0  0  3   3-13   0 
NB: the 1944/45 season was abandoned after a few rounds and replaced
    by an (unofficial) Budapest competition in the fall of 1944.

Bulgaria

Greece | Macedonia

After entering World War II at the side of the axis, Bulgaria occupied parts of northern Greece and southern Yugoslavia. No league championship was organised in Bulgaria during the war, but several clubs from the occupied areas reached the latter stages of the knock-out style national championship or of the Tzar's Cup.

Greek clubs in the Bulgarian football structure 1941-1943

Championship (knock-out style)

1943: 2nd round: Belomorets Kavala       (2-1, 0-1, 1-2 vs Botev Plovdiv)

NB: is is unknown whether this club (whose name translates to 'White
    Sea', referring to the Aegean) is related to the Kavala clubs 
    (in particular AEK Kavalas and Filippi Kavalas, which together
    with Iraklis Kavala merged into AO Kavalas in 1965) playing in 
    the northern section of the Greek championship prior to 1940.

Macedonian clubs in the Bulgarian football structure 1941-1943

All clubs below are from towns in the current state of Macedonia, an area on which Bulgaria have historically laid claims. Note that Macedonia also is the name for a large part of Northern Greece. Makedonija Skopje once reached the championship final and also the semifinal of the Tzar's Cup; they are one of the ancestors of current Vardar Skopje.

Championship (knock-out style)

1942: finalists: Makedonija Skopje       (0-2, 0-1 vs Levski Sofia)
      1/6 final: Makedonija Bitola       (0-1 vs Slavia Sofia)
      1/6 final: ŽSK Skopje              (0-3 vs ŽSK Sofia)
      1/12 fin.: Vardar Skopje           (1-4 vs Makedonija Bitola)
      1/12 fin.: Goce Delcev Prilep      (0-8 vs ŽSK Skopje)
1943: 2nd round: ŽSK Skopje              (1-3, 1-2 vs Levski Plovdiv)
      1st round: Makedonija Bitola       (0-1, 0-2 vs ŽSK Skopje)

Tzar's Cup

1941: semifinal: Makedonija Skopje       (0-1 vs Napreduk Ruse)
1942: quarterf.: Makedonija Bitola       (0-3 vs SK Plovdiv)
      1st round: ŽSK Skopje              (1-2 vs Makedonija Bitola)

NB: Goce Delcev were founded 1941 and renamed Pobeda Prilep in 1950;
    as such they won the 2003/04 Macedonian championship and 2001/02
    Macedonian cup, also losing the 1999/00 cup final;
    Makedonija Bitola are apparently not related to current Pelister;
    Makedonija Skopje merged 1947 with Pobeda Skopje into Vardar Skopje
    (see the section on Macedonian clubs in Yugoslavia); therefore,
    neither the Makedonija Skopje nor the Vardar Skopje teams above are
    related to the current clubs of those names, but the war-time
    Makedonija Skopje is part of the genealogical tree of current Vardar;
    it is unknown whether the railway club ŽSK (Željezničarski SK) 
    Skopje is related to any current club.

Croatia

Bosnia and Herzegovina | Serbia

During the second World War, Germany, Hungary and Italy dismembered Yugoslavia, and created the 'independent' vassal state of Croatia, which also comprised current Bosnia-Herzegovina and some parts of current Serbia. During the war, football competitions were organised in this state, leading to the participation of many clubs based in Bosnia-Herzegovina and some from Zemun and Subotica. These are summarised below. See also the section on Yugoslavia.

Bosnian and Herzegovinan clubs in the Croatian football structure

The seasons 1940/41 and 1941 were played in a league format; the 1941 season was abandoned at the half-way stage. All later seasons had regional or city leagues from which clubs emerged to a knock-out tournament for the title (the 1943 season had a 4-team league as final stage). The most successful club from current Bosnia and Herzegovina was SAŠK Sarajevo, who reached the Croatian championship final in 1942.

Among the clubs listed here, SAŠK Sarajevo had previously played in the Yugoslav championship; they seem to have been dissolved after the war. Zrinjski Mostar have won the 2004/05 championship of Bosnia-Herzegovina, but it is unknown if and how this club are related to that of 1941. None of the mentioned clubs from Banja Luka appear to be related to either Borac Banja Luka or Krajišnik (dissolved 1945) who played in the Yugoslav championship. Likewise, Đerdelez Sarajevo appear unrelated to any later Sarajevo club that featured in Yugoslavia or independent Bosnia-Herzegovina, and Tomislav Zenica are not identical to Čelik Zenica.

SAŠK Sarajevo
1940/41  7.SAŠK Sarajevo           18  5  3 10  17-44  13
1941     9.SAŠK Sarajevo            8  0  0  8   0-30   0
NB: season abandoned
1942: semifinal: SAŠK Sarajevo           (1-2, 1-9 vs Concordia Zagreb)
1943: quarterf.: SAŠK Sarajevo           (0-0, 0-3awd vs Concordia Zagreb)
1944: finalists: SAŠK Sarajevo           (final vs HAŠK Zagreb not played)

Zrinjski Mostar  
1941     4.Zrinjski Mostar          8  4  1  3  16-19   9
NB: season abandoned

Incomplete lists of Bosnian and Herzegovinan participants at group 
stage who did not reach the knock-out stage (unlike SAŠK Sarajevo):
1942: Zrinjski Mostar, Hrvoje Banja Luka, HBSK Banja Luka,
      Đerdelez Sarajevo
1943: Hrvoje Banja Luka, HBSK Banja Luka, Đerdelez Sarajevo, 
      Tomislav Zenica
1944: HBSK Banja Luka, Zvonimir Banja Luka, Hrvoje Banja Luka,
      Hajduk Sarajevo, Đerdelez Sarajevo, Tomislav Zenica

Serbian clubs in the Croatian football structure

Bačka Subotica were dissolved in 1945. In 1950, a new club called Bačka Subotica was formed out of a merger between a number of local clubs. Neither version of the club has won any honours in Serbia (or Yugoslavia). Nothing is known about the fate of the Zemun clubs after World War II (they did not play a significant role in Yugoslavia before the war, though a club called Sparta Zemun played in the 1938/39 league); presumably they were all dissolved. Naša krila Zemun (dissolved 1950) and Galenika/FK Zemun are not related.

Bačka Subotica
1940/41 10.Bačka Subotica          18  2  3 13  19-58   7

Victoria Zemun
1941     8.Victoria Zemun           8  2  1  5  12-33   5

1943: quarterf.: HSK Zemun               (0-4, 2-1 vs HAŠK Zagreb)
1944: 2nd round: Građanski Zemun         (0-2, 0-3awd vs Borovo)

Incomplete lists of Serbian participants at group stage who did not 
reach the knock-out stage:
1942: Građanski Zemun, Victoria Zemun 
1944: Dunav Zemun, Građanski Zemun, Liet Zemun, Hajduk Zemun

Albania

Kosovo

During World War II, Italian troups occupied Albania and parts of Yugoslavia, including Kosovo. (The occupation started slightly before the war, in April 1939.) The Albanian FA organised three unofficial championships during this time (in 1939, 1940 and 1942); in the last of the three, three clubs from Kosovo entered.

Kosovar clubs in the Albanian football structure

The 1942 unofficial championship was organised in three regional zones; the three Kosovar participants (Peja, Prishtina and Prizreni, from the towns of Pejë, Prishtinë and Prizren respectively) played in the Zona e Veriut (northern zone) along with Shkodra from Shkodër. Prizreni won the zone (played as a single round robin) and qualified for the national semifinals along with runners-up Shkodra. They held favourites Tirana to a draw (after extra time) in their semifinal on June 26, 1942, but lost the replay the next day. Shkodra, the 1940 champions who had sensationally lost 1-3 away to Prizreni in the zonal stage, had meanwhile beaten Berati (from Berat, the winners of the southern zone) and played the final against Tirana on June 29; they drew 1-1 but refused to play extra time, and therefore Tirana were declared champions. Note that the teams were all denoted in the press by their town names, though they were commonly understood to be the leading club team (SK Tirana, Vllaznia Shkodër, Tomori Berat etcetera) from each town.

(unofficial war-time) Championship

Prizreni
1942     1.Prizreni                 3  3  0  0  10- 2   6  [northern zone]
1942: semifinal: Prizreni                (2-2 aet, 1-2 vs Tirana)

Peja
1942     3.Peja                     3  0  1  2   3- 5   1  [northern zone]

Prishtina
1942     4.Prishtina                3  0  1  2   2- 9   1  [northern zone]

Japan

Russia | South Korea

Russian clubs in the Japanese football structure 1905-1945

Japan occupied the southern part of the Sakhalin island (known as Karafuto in Japanese) between 1905 and 1945; between 1918 and 1925 Japan also occupied the more northern region around Alexandrovsk-Sakhalinsky (Akō in Japanese), and it held all Kuril Islands (Chishima Islands) from Kunashir (main city Yuzhno-Kurilsk, Furukamappu in Japanese) to Paramushir (main city Severo-Kurilsk, Kashiwabara in Japanese) from 1875 to 1945 (Japan still claims the four southernmost Kuril islands, including Kunashir, but all are currently under Russian control). However, only on southern Sakhalin some minimal information on football activities during Japanese occupation is available. In 1921, first regional competitions in the southern part of Sakhalin were organised, in which teams from the cities of Toyohara (now Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk), Ōtomari (now Korsakov), Ochiai (now Dolinsk) and Maoka (now Kholmsk) participated, initiated by a publishing company. Starting from 1924 also youth competitions were organised. No data on winners are available.

Currently, Sakhalin has a regional championship at the fifth level of the Russian league pyramid, in which clubs from the above four cities as well as from southern Sakhalin cities such as Aniva (Rūtaka in Japanese), Makarov (Shirutoru in Japanese), Nevelsk (Honto in Japanese), Poronaysk (Shikuka in Japanese), Shakhtersk (Tōro in Japanese), Tomari (Tomarioru in Japanese) and Uglegorsk (Esutoru in Japanese) may enter.

In the 1992 and 1993 seasons, the region had a club playing at the second Russian level in Sakhalin Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, who played in the eastern zone (one of three regional divisions), and finished 13rd (out of 16) in 1992 and 10th out of 16 in 1993 (a season in which they had relocated to Kholmsk). As a nationwide second division (Pervaya Liga) was established for the 1994 season, only the top-5 remained at the second level and Sakhalin missed out. Afterwards, no club from the region has played higher than the third Russian league level (eastern group), most recently the same Sakhalin Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk in the 2007 and 2008 seasons; at the end of the latter they were relegated and will join Portovik-Energiya Kholmsk at the fourth level (AFL Dalniy Vostok (Far East)).

South Korean clubs in the Japanese football structure 1935-1936

Japan occupied large parts on the Asian continent (in particular Manchuria and Korea) and many Pacific islands prior to and during World War II. Not much is known about the Japanese football championship prior to the introduction of a national league in 1965, but two Korean clubs reached the final of the Emperor's Cup during Japanese occupation, one (Seoul Shukyu-dan - its contemporary Korean name is not clear) winning it. There supposedly also was a separate tournament for the national championship, twice won by Kyungsung (the contemporary name for Seoul) but no further data are available on the tournament.

Championship

1935: winners:   Kyungsung               (6-0 vs Nagoya)
1936: winners:   Kyungsung               (4  4 0 0 15- 3  8)

NB: Kyungsung (modern transcription: Gyeongseong) was the contemporary
    name of Seoul.

Emperor's Cup

1935: winners:   Seoul Shukyu-dan        (2-0 vs Tokyo Bunri University)
1936: finalists: Poseung College         (2-3 vs Keio University BRB)

NB: Poseung College (also spelled Posung College) currently called
    Korea University and based in Seoul

South Africa

See the section on splits and unifications for a discussion of the four bantustans who were nominally independent from South Africa during the last decade and a half of the apartheid regime.

Namibian clubs in the South African football structure

After World War I, the former German colony of Südwestafrika became a League of Nations mandate area entrusted to South Africa. After World War II, South Africa annexed the country, without international recognition. After a struggle of decades, the area gained independence as Namibia in 1990, a few years before the end of the apartheid regime in South Africa. During South African rule, various clubs from the region reached the national second division (in the all-white NFL), though never the top flight. In 1966, the first season in which the South West African league structure was integrated into the NFL, South West African champions SK Windhoek entered the promotion playoffs to the top level, but lost 0-9 to Corinthians (who were promoted). Only a few second division league finishes of Windhoek clubs are known, see below. After the 1974 season, Windhoek City merged with SK Windhoek into Sportklub Windhoek City; the merger club continued playing in the second division until the NFL was dissolved in 1977.

The city of Walvis Bay (founded as Walvisbaai between 1720 and 1725, and known as Walfischbucht in German) was part of the South African Cape Province between 1910 and 1911 and again between 1971 and 1977, when the area came under direct rule by the South African government. It was returned to independent Namibia in 1994, after the end of apartheid. No data are available on clubs from Walvis Bay playing in the South African league structure.

NFL - National Division II
1969     9.Windhoek Ramblers       18  5  1 12  19-70  11
1974     8.Windhoek City           24  9  5 10  44-46  23

Morocco

Ifni | Western Sahara

Like Ceuta and Melilla, which are still Spanish territories, Ifni (now in southwestern Morocco) was a coastal Spanish exclave during colonial times, and, unlike Tetuán, remained Spanish when Morocco gained independence. Between 1946 and 1958 it was ruled together with Western Sahara before becoming an overseas Spanish province on its own after a Moroccan invasion attempt. In 1969, following international pressure, Spain relinquished the area to Morocco.

Morocco occupied Western Sahara shortly after Spain released the area into independence. Two clubs from the main city Laâyoune (El Ayoun) have played in the top division, though without much tangible success; however, JS de la Massira reached the semifinals of the national cup competition, the Coupe du Thrône, on 4 separate occasions.

Ifni clubs in the Moroccan football structure

When Ifni was relinquished to Morocco in 1969, 4 local football clubs existed: Balompédica CF, CD Africa, Atlético Español de Fútbol and CD Ifni. All were based in the capital town Sidi Ifni. It is unknown how these clubs performed within the Spanish football structure or whether regional championships were organised.

Currently, Tihad Sidi Ifni are playing at the third level in Morocco (they may have played at the second level previously, but probably not at the first level). As Tihad is short for Ittihad, meaning Union, they may have been created as a merger of the old 'Spanish' clubs.

Western Saharan clubs in the Moroccan football structure

CSE Laâyoune were the first club from the area to be promoted to the Moroccan top level league, in 1984, but they only lasted three seasons there (and the third only because of an extension of the top flight to 24 clubs, distributed over 2 groups).

Championship

1984/85  ?.CSE Laâyoune
1985/86 19.CSE Laâyoune            38  6 11 21  20-48  61 
1986/87 11.CSE Laâyoune            22  2  6 14  28-49  32  [group A]

In 1995, the Auxiliary Forces team, based in Ben Slimane, who had finished ninth in the 1994/95 league championship, were moved to Laâyoune and renamed Jeunesse Sportive de la Massira; Massira is the name for the "Green March", staged on November 6, 1975 by about 300,000 (unarmed) Moroccans occupying areas of the former Spanish colony of Western Sahara rich in natural resources. The club have not been relegated since, and occasionally manage a finish in the top half of the table. They have enjoyed more (relative) success in the Coupe du Thrône, having reached (and being eliminated at) the semifinal stage on 4 occasions.

Championship

1995/96 10.JS de la Massira        30  9 13  8  31-30  40
1996/97  4.JS de la Massira        30 14  9  7  43-30  51
1997/98 12.JS de la Massira        30  9  8 13  26-36  35
1998/99  9.JS de la Massira        30 10  6 14  26-43  36
1999/00 13.JS de la Massira        30  4 15 11  19-34  27
2000/01 14.JS de la Massira        30  6 12 12  27-33  30
2001/02  9.JS de la Massira        30  8 11 11  32-45  35
2002/03  8.JS de la Massira        30  7 13 10  25-32  34
2003/04 11.JS de la Massira        30  7 14  9  20-25  35
2004/05  5.JS de la Massira        30  9 12  9  26-25  39
2005/06 13.JS de la Massira        30  5 17  8  23-26  32
2006/07  8.JS de la Massira        30  8 13  9  21-21  37 
2007/08  9.JS de la Massira        30  8 14  8  27-28  38 

Cup

1997: semifinal: JS de la Massira        (2-3 vs WAC Casablanca)
2000: 1/8 final: JS de la Massira        (1-1 aet, 2-4 pen vs KAC Kénitra)
2001: semifinal: JS de la Massira        (1-4 vs MAS Fès)
2002: 1/8 final: JS de la Massira        (0-1 vs KAC Marrakech)
2003: quarterf.: JS de la Massira        (2-3 aet vs Raja Casablanca)
2004: semifinal: JS de la Massira        (0-1 vs FAR Rabat)
2005: semifinal: JS de la Massira        (0-1 vs OC Khouribga)

Ethiopia

Eritrea became an autonomous state within Ethiopia in 1952, and remained so until 1962 when Addis Abeba revoked the autonomy and factually annexed the country, its only access to the Red Sea. After a lenghty war, Eritrea were granted independence in 1993.

The first season in which Eritrean clubs entered the Ethiopian football structure was 1953; it is not known for how long they continued to participate actively, but until the mid seventies they did so with considerably success, in particular in the late fifties and early seventies in the league, and in the eighties in the cup.

Eritrean clubs in the Ethiopian football structure

We only list Eritrean clubs winning the national championship or cup, as only limited data are available. Among the clubs listed, Red Sea (also known as Key Baher) won the championship of independent Eritrea 6 times since 1995. None of the others appear to have 'survived' independence; in any case none are mentioned in the (sparse) available data on football in independent Eritrea. Akale Guzay (1958 Ethiopian champions) was the former name of Embassoyra (1974 champions), and Asmara (1972 and 1973 champions of Ethiopia) were known as Hamassien (champions 1955 and 1957) before. As far as is known, all clubs mentioned are or were based in the Eritrean capital Asmara.
Note that Hamassien/Asmara, Akale Guzay/Embassoyra and Tele SC all played in the 1946/47 Eritrean championship under Italian rule. Hamassien won the 1949 Coppa Torino in the colonial era. A club called Mar Rosso also existed at the time, but reportedly was dissolved and so presumably not related to the aforementioned Red Sea, Ethiopian cup winners of 1981 and 1983.

Championship

1955     1.Hamassien
1957     1.Hamassien
1958     1.Akale Guzay
1959     1.Tele SC
1969     1.Tele SC
1970     1.Tele SC
1972     1.Asmara
1973     1.Asmara
1974     1.Embassoyra

NB: in 1953, Hamassien lost the championship final 3-4 to Army (from
    Addis Abeba);
    some sources claim Red Sea (Asmara) won the 1948 championship, but
    apparently the champions were Red Sea (Addis Abeba).

Cup

1970: winners:   Asmara
1981: winners:   Red Sea
1983: winners:   Red Sea
1984: winners:   Eritrea Shoes
1985: winners:   Eritrea Shoes
1987: winners:   Eritrea Shoes

China

Note that China only organises an national football championship since 1951, so after Taiwan became de facto independent. Prior to this, there were National Games (7 editions between 1910 and 1948, held on 10 occasions since) and Inter-Sectional Football Championships (7 editions between 1926 and 1933) but the island of Taiwan was never involved in any of those. Hongkong did participate in various National Games, as did selections of Chinese from Malaysia, the Philippines and Thailand; see the section on border moves.

Tibetan teams in the Chinese football structure

Tibet, which had been de facto independent from 1913 to 1950, was annexed by China in 1951. Nothing is known about football in the region prior to the annexation. In recent years, two 'Tibet' club teams played at the third level of the Chinese league structure. In 2003, Beijing-based Tibet Xuequan did so; in 2004 Tibet Huitong Luhua, based in Baoding (Hebei province) entered. This club moved to Beijing for 2005, and reached the promotion playoffs. After their quarterfinal exit, the club bought the franchise of second level Dalian Changbo, relocated to Taiyuan (after first intending to play in Heilongjiang province - the completely opposite side of China seen from Tibet) and renamed it Shanxi Luhu. Before the 2007 season, the club was renamed Hohhot and relocated to the city of that name, the capital of Inner Mongolia. None of the cities mentioned is remotely close to Tibet - Taiyuan is about 2000 kilometres from Lhasa, as the bird flies, and the others are (much) further away. So the relationship of these two clubs with Tibet is probably comparable to that of Montevideo-based clubs Bristol, Dublin and Liverpool (all once top level clubs in Uruguay) with the corresponding cities in Britain and Ireland.
Much earlier, in 1965, a Tibet 'representative' team finished 5th (from 15) in one of the four Division Two groups, missing out on the second level championship playoffs. In the seventies, the Chinese football championship involved up to 45 teams, mostly provincial selections, army units or youth sides. Tibet participated on various occasions. These tournaments were played in four first stage groups, with the best teams playing off for the title and the others for the lower placings. In 1974, Tibet withdrew from the playoffs for 25th to 45th place which they were to enter; in 1976, the second stage was not played because of the upheavals following the death of Mao. In 1978, a 16-team top flight was installed, and Tibet entered Division 2, finishing 20th from 22. In 1979, they dropped 2 places and finished bottom of Division 2. Since then, no Tibet representation or club team has played above the third level, with the exception of the 1986 season when the second division had 33 teams and Tibet finished 5th in their 9-team first round group.

Championship

Tibet (4 top level seasons)
1973    32.Tibet                   17  1  0 16   9-53   2  [aggregate record]
1974     -.Tibet                    9  0  0  9   5-29   0  [first stage]
1976     -.Tibet                    9  1  4  4   9-17   6  [first stage]
1977    38.Tibet                   15  1  5  9  18-33   7  [aggregate record]
NB: no championship organised in 1975.

India

Goa | Sikkim

Since obtaining independence from Britian, India's borders underwent several changes. The most spectacular was the separation from Pakistan (later split into Pakistan and Bangladesh; with Pakistan there is a long standing conflict on the Jammu and Kashmir region - teams from the part currently controlled by India occasionally enter Indian tournaments, but it is not known whether there ever were football competitions covering the entire region). There were also several additions: India annexed 'French India' (Karikal, Yanaon and Mahé) in 1956 and the Portuguese colonies of Goa, Diu and Damão in 1962, as well as Sikkim through a referendum in 1975.

Goan teams in the Indian football structure

Football was reportedly introduced to Goa in 1883, but before Goa came to India in 1962, an official league had been going on for just a decade. The ten league championships played out between 1951/52 and 1960/61 were shared by CD Vasco da Gama (3 titles), AD Velha Goa (2 titles), CD Chinchinim, Independente de Margao, GD Polícia, CD Salgaocar and Sporting Clube de Goa (all 1 title); among those 7 clubs, Salgaocar (renamed Salgaocar SC) won 17 Goan leagues between 1962/63 and 2006, Vasco da Gama (renamed Vasco SC) 3 and Sporting Clube de Goa 1 (in 2006 - their first championship since 1952/53).

Moreover, Goan clubs have played a dominant role since the introduction of a national football league in India in the 1996/97 season, seriously challenging Calcutta's long-time undisputed standing as the strongest football region in the country. Although Goan clubs claimed just 4 (Salgaocar in 1998/99 and Dempo in 2004/05, 2006/07 and 2007/08) of the 12 disputed championships (against 6 for Calcutta (nowadays officially called Kolkata) - 3 each for the two eternal rivals East Bengal and Mohun Bagan), Goa showed considerable greater strength in depth: among the twelve league runners-up, 7 were from Goa, which also accounted for 6 of the teams finishing third.

Goa's strength in depth was particularly clear in the first few years after the turn of the millennium: in 2002/03 the tiny state, accounting for little more than 0.1 percent of the country's surface and population, provided 4 of the 12 league clubs (Calcutta 3) and all finished in the top-6; in 2003/04 Goa fielded 5 of the 12 top flight outfits (Calcutta 4) and all finished in the top-8; and in 2004/05 the former Portuguese colony accounted for half (6 out of 12) of the top division participants (Calcutta just 3), claiming the top two positions as well. Although all 6 Goan clubs finished in the top-10, a reduction of the league (from 12 to 10 participants) meant 2 Goan clubs were relegated, and as another 2 went down in 2005/06 (while Churchill Brothers went the opposite direction), 2006/07 had 'just' 3 Goan participants among the 10 top flight teams - equal to Calcutta's share. In 2007/08, Goa again fielded 4 clubs, against just 2 for Calcutta and Mumbai; due to an extension of the top flight to 12 clubs, the 2008/09 had 4 clubs from both Calcutta and Goa and 3 from Mumbai. In each and every league season so far, Goa had the highest number of teams participating (sometimes equalled, but never bested, by Calcutta).

Note that the seasons 1996/97 and 1998/99 were played over two stages, with a 2-group first stage from which 8 clubs qualified for the championship playoff.

Championship

Churchill Brothers SC (12 top level seasons)
1996/97  2.Churchill Brothers SC   19 10  6  3  27-16  36  [aggregate record]
1997/98  9.Churchill Brothers SC   18  4  7  7  20-26  19
1998/99  3.Churchill Brothers SC   20  7  8  5  27-21  29  [aggregate record]
1999/00  2.Churchill Brothers SC   22 12  5  5  36-17  41
2000/01  3.Churchill Brothers SC   22 10  6  6  32-25  36
2001/02  2.Churchill Brothers SC   22 12  6  4  44-19  42
2002/03  5.Churchill Brothers SC   22 10  7  5  33-22  37
2003/04  4.Churchill Brothers SC   22 10  6  6  29-24  36
2004/05  9.Churchill Brothers SC   22  5  8  9  23-33  23
2006/07  4.Churchill Brothers SC   18  7  8  3  30-23  29  
2007/08  2.Churchill Brothers SC   18 11  3  4  40-22  36
2008/09  playing

Dempo SC (11 top level seasons)
1996/97  4.Dempo SC                19  8  6  5  26-18  30  [aggregate record]
1997/98  6.Dempo SC                18  5  7  6  20-22  22
1998/99  5.Dempo SC                10  2  3  5   6-11   9  [group A]
1999/00 12.Dempo SC                22  1  8 13   9-34  11
2002/03  6.Dempo SC                22 10  5  7  34-29  35
2003/04  2.Dempo SC                22 12  9  1  28-12  45
2004/05  1.Dempo SC                22 14  5  3  28-17  47
2005/06  5.Dempo SC                17  6  7  4  29-22  25
2006/07  1.Dempo SC                18 11  3  4  37-21  36  
2007/08  1.Dempo SC                18 10  6  2  35-13  36
2008/09  playing

Salgaocar SC (11 top level seasons)
1996/97  7.Salgaocar SC            19  5  7  7  10-13  22  [aggregate record]
1997/98  3.Salgaocar SC            18  8  6  4  19-13  30
1998/99  1.Salgaocar SC            20 11  6  3  34-14  39  [aggregate record]
1999/00  3.Salgaocar SC            22 11  6  5  26-15  39
2000/01  6.Salgaocar SC            22  8  2 12  23-26  26
2001/02  4.Salgaocar SC            22 10  9  3  32-17  39
2002/03  2.Salgaocar SC            22 13  5  4  43-17  44
2003/04  7.Salgaocar SC            22  7  6  9  24-23  27
2004/05  6.Salgaocar SC            22  7  7  8  26-24  28
2005/06  9.Salgaocar SC            17  2  6  9  15-29  12
2007/08 10.Salgaocar SC            18  1  8  9  20-37  11

Vasco SC (6 top level seasons)
2000/01  5.Vasco SC                22  5 12  5  13-17  27
2001/02  3.Vasco SC                22 12  4  6  28-20  40
2002/03  3.Vasco SC                22 12  7  3  40-21  43
2003/04  6.Vasco SC                22  6 10  6  22-19  28
2004/05 10.Vasco SC                22  5  5 12  25-37  20
2008/09  playing

Sporting Clube de Goa (6 top level seasons)
2003/04  8.Sporting Clube de Goa   22  7  6  9  34-35  27
2004/05  2.Sporting Clube de Goa   22 14  3  5  46-23  45
2005/06  4.Sporting Clube de Goa   17  6  7  4  24-16  25
2006/07  6.Sporting Clube de Goa   18  6  7  5  23-19  25
2007/08  7.Sporting Clube de Goa   18  4  7  7  14-24  19 
2008/09  playing

Fransa FC (2 top level seasons, 1 abandoned)
2004/05  5.Fransa FC               22  8  6  8  24-26  30
2005/06 10.Fransa-Pax FC            9  0  4  5   2-13   4

Sikkim teams in the Indian football structure

The until then independent Himalaya kingdom of Sikkim, bordering to its west on Nepal, to its north on China (more precisely, Tibet) and to its east on Bhutan, entered India as its 22nd state following a referendum in 1975 (after an earlier rejection by popular vote in 1947; after that, Sikkim had obtained a special 'protectorate' status). China did not recognise this move until 2003; in return India then recognised China's possession of Tibet. The capital of the state is Gangtok, also its largest town.
Currently the most important football tournament in the region is the invitational Sikkim Governor's Gold Cup, which draws participants from India, Bangladesh, Bhutan and Nepal; the 2006 edition even included a team from Nigeria. Its inaugural edition in 1979 was won by local side GMC from Gangtok; since then, no local team has reached the final.
Prior to 1975, the dominant teams in Sikkim had been Sikkim Guards and Kumar Sporting Club (which already won an unspecified tournament outside of Sikkim in 1948); in the early seventies, they were joined by 1/3rd Gorkha Rifles, an army team which had been moved to Sikkim. No information is available on domestic competitions in Sikkim in this era. Sikkim representative teams played in tournaments outside the area (e.g. in Darjeeling) as well, but also here details are lacking. The current Sikkim FA was formed in 1976; its predecessor was the Gangtok Football and Sporting Association.

Since the inclusion of the state in India, Sikkim are irregular and unsuccessful entrants in the Santosh Trophy, a competition for state selections. This is (usually) played over two group stages followed by semifinals and final. In their best ever performance, in 2004, Sikkim reached the quarterfinal group stage (involving 12 teams divided in 4 groups of 3) after beating both Orissa and Pondicherry 4-3; they then lost both second stage matches heavily (1-5 to Manipur and 1-6 to Karnataka).
In the league pyramid, a Sikkim club team once entered the second level (played in various regional groups followed by a final national stage in which promotion can be earned); in recent years, the Sikkim FA usually declined the invitation to enter a club, presumably because of the prospective lack of success. Sikkim's main claim to fame in football terms is the fact that Baichung Bhutia, the best Indian player in recent years, was born there.

Championship (Division 2)

Boys Athletic Club (Gangtok)
2001/02  5.Boys Athletic Club       3  0  0  3   1- 7   0
NB: result of last group match (presumably lost) unknown

Cup (Santosh Trophy)

Sikkim (best ever performance only)
2004     -.Sikkim                   4  2  0  2  10-14   6  [aggregate record]

Indonesia

East Timor | Western New Guinea

East Timor clubs in the Indonesian football structure

Indonesian invaded the former Portuguese colony East Timor in 1975, when Portugal had granted the area independence, and occupied it until 1999, the western world being rather more lenient with Suharto than with Saddam Hussein when he invaded Kuwait under comparable pretexts a decade and a half later. It is not known to what extent clubs from the area participated at the lower echelons of Indonesian league football, but one club is reported to have played at the national stage of (presumably) the second level of the 1991/92 amateur championship, Perserikatan. Summa FC from East Timor played two matches in Sleman (near Yogyakarta, central Java) against local side PSK Kalasan (to whom they lost 1-2) and Surabaya amateur team Suryanaga (who beat them 4-1) as part of the national stage (last 16) of the Divisi Satu (division one, second level) of the 1991/92 Perserikatan.

Perserikatan - Divisi Satu
1992: group st.: Summa FC                (2  0 0 2  2- 6  0)

Western New Guinean clubs in the Indonesian football structure

When Indonesia became independent in 1949, the Netherlands kept the western part of New Guinea, which remained a Dutch colony until 1961. It was to obtain full independence by 1971, but following Indonesian mobilisation and pressure from the US administration under Kennedy, the Netherlands handed over the territory to UN administration in October 1962, which in turn handed the area to Indonesia in May 1963. A plebiscite was organised in 1969, which resulted in a 100% vote for continued Indonesian rule.

During Dutch rule, football was mainly played at local level, in particular in and around the capital Hollandia (founded in 1910 and currently called Jayapura after a temporary name change to Sukarnopura), where two football associations existed, both organising their own competitions, namely the VHO (Voetbalbond Hollandia en Omstreken), which initially was restricted to Europeans and their descendants, and the VBH (Voetbal Bond Hollandia), in which the local population had a place (in later years, Papua's also gained access to the VHO). Occasionally matches between selections from Hollandia and Biak were organised. No data on championships or other competitions are available, but we include some data on clubs existing prior to the Indonesian takeover below.
The following 12 clubs belonged to the VHO: from Hollandia: HBS (Houdt Braef Stand; club colour: black; founded January 24, 1952), Hercules (club colours: red-white), MKH (club colours: white-navy blue), POMS (Perumuman Olahraga Maluku Selatan - referring to the Southern Moluccas; club colour: red), Sparta (club colours: red-white) and VIOS (Vooruit Is Ons Streven; club colours: blue-light blue; founded March 1957); from Hollandia-Binnen (also known as Kota Baroe): EDO (Eendracht Doet Overwinnen; club colours: green-white), MVV (Missie Voetbal Vereniging; club colour: green), WIK (Willen Is Kunnen; blue-white; founded 1950) and ZIGO (Zonder Inspanning Geen Ontspanning; club colours: yellow-black); and from Hamadi: HVC (club colour: blue) and Zeemacht (club colours: orange-white). Of these, at least the following 8 clubs entered the VHO league in 1961: EDO, HBS, Hercules, HVC, POMS, WIK, Zeemacht and ZIGO.
VBH clubs included: DVG (Dienst Gezondheidszorg), Juliana (representing the Osiba, i.e. Opleidingsschool voor inheemse bestuursambtenaren) KSB (Kami Suku Mebri/Sentani), LON (Latihan Olahraga Nafri), LOS (Latihan Olahraga Sentani) and SPS (Serikat Pemuda Supiori); in addition, clubs from Enggros, Ifar and Tobati (each a village (kampong) near Hollandia, as was Sentani and presumably Nafri) may have taken part.

It is unknown whether any of these clubs survived since the area became Indonesian; the current top club from the island, Persipura from Jayapura, was founded in 1950 and may be related to one of the above (presumably a former VBH club, as their club colours are white-black and do not seem to fit any former VHO club). Persipura won the 2005 Indonesian championship, beating hosts Persija 3-2 after extra time in the final in Jakarta. In 2006, Persipura lost the Indonesian cup final (for the Copa Dji Sam Soe) 0-2 to Arema from Malang, a feat they repeated in 2007, losing the final to Sriwijaya FC from Palembang after a penalty shoot-out (1-1 aet, 0-3 pen). They also were runners-up in the amateur championship of 1980, losing the final 1-3 to Persiraja from Banda Aceh (capital of Aceh in Northern Sumatra, a region with a strong independence movement dating back to colonial times) and won the last ever second level (Divisi Satu) championship of the Perserikatan in 1993 (the amateur and semiprofessional league structures merged in 1994), a championship they had won before in 1979.

Other clubs from the area playing a role in the higher levels of the Indonesian league structure are Persiwa from Wamena (in the 2007 top level; together with Persipura qualified for the 8-team championship playoff in January 2008), Perseman from Manokwari (winners of the second level Divisi Satu of the Perserikatan in 1984; promoted to the top level for the 2007 season but relegated immediately), Persidafon from Dafonsoro (at the second level 2007), Persiss from Sorong, PSBS from Biak Numfor, Persigubin from Gunung Bintang, Persinab from Nabire and Freeport Indonesia (all third level clubs 2007) as well as Persewon from Wondama (promoted from the fourth to third level 2007, but due to a reorganisation of the league structure they will probably play at the fourth level 2008).

Note that Indonesia also took control over the Southern Moluccas (Maluku Selatan) against the perceived will of the majority of the population (which migrated in great numbers to the Netherlands) shortly after gaining independence. However, nothing is known about a separate regional football structure for this group of islands prior to their annexation by Indonesia. The POMS club in Hollandia listed above presumably was founded by refugees from there.

Israel

Israel occupied the West Bank and the Gaza Strip in 1967, following the Six-Day war. For the definition of Israel, Palestine and British Palestine in the context of this document, see the section on British Palestine.

Palestinian clubs in the Israeli football structure since 1967

Various Arab clubs were set up in Israel in the 1950s and 1960s, in cities such as Akko, Furaydis, Jaljulia, Kafr-Kana, Kafr-Kasem, Kafr-Yassif, Lod, Majd El-Kurum, Meilya, Nazareth, Taibe, Tarshiha and Tira. The first of these to reach the Israeli top flight were Hapoel Taibe in 1996/97, but they lasted only one season. In 2003, two Arab clubs won promotion from the second level, the Liga Leumit; champions Maccabi Ahi Nazareth were immediately relegated in 2003/04, but runners-up, Hapoel Bnei Sakhnin, lasted three seasons and won the 2003/04 Israeli cup, thereby qualifying for the 2004/05 UEFA Cup. They were relegated at the end of 2005/06 but have meanwhile secured promotion back to the top flight for the 2007/08 season.
But Palestinian clubs from the Gaza Strip and the West Bank are restricted to their own regional championships and cups (interaction between the two areas has been minimal) and no clubs from the area have entered the Israeli league structur, apart from clubs from Jewish settlements in the area, who form leagues at the Israeli lower levels.

Jordan

Jordan annexed the West Bank in 1948, following the Arab-Israeli War, and lost it to Israel in 1967, following the Six-Day war. In 1988, Jordan relinquished its claims on the area.
For the definition of Palestine (including the West Bank) in the context of this document, see the section on British Palestine.

Palestinian clubs in the Jordan football structure 1948-1967

Nothing is known about clubs from the West Bank entering Jordan football competitions.

However, following the 1948 mass exodus of Palestinians from areas now in Israel, a number of Palestinian clubs were formed in Jordan, such as Al-Wahdat (founded 1956), Shabab Al-Hussein (1954) and Al-Baqa'a (1968), all named after Palestinian refugee camps in Jordan. Most successful has been Al-Wahdat ("Unity", referring to the unity between both banks of the Jordan river; the club was temporarily called Al-Deffatain ("The Two Banks") between 1986 and 1988, when Jordan withdrew its claim on the West Bank). They joined the Jordan league in 1966, reached the top level in 1975, and have since won 8 Jordan championships, 6 Jordan cups, 7 Jordan Super Cups and 6 Jordan FA Shields. But as they are based within the internationally recognised borders of Jordan, they do not qualify as 'club from Palestine in Jordan'. Other 'Palestinian' clubs were formed in other Arab countries, in particular Syria and Iraq, where Nadi Haifa Al-Riyadhi (Haifa Sports Club, founded 1979 and named after the city from which the first wave of Palestinian refugees to Iraq originated, but based in Baghdad) played one season (1999/00) in the top division, finishing 26th and last after winning 3 and drawing 9 of their 50(!) matches.

Egypt

Egypt occupied the Gaza Strip in 1948, following the Arab-Israeli War, and lost it to Israel in 1967, following the Six-Day war.
For the definition of Palestine (including the Gaza Strip) in the context of this document, see the section on British Palestine.

Palestinian clubs in the Egyptian football structure

There was a regional league in the Gaza Strip in the 1960s, but no data are available, and it is not known whether there was any (competitive) interaction between clubs from the Gaza Strip and those in the regular Egyptian league structure.

France

Clubs from Northern Africa (Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia) entered the Coupe de France between 1954 and 1960 (the Moroccan and Tunisian clubs only until 1956). The best ever performance of any such club undoubtedly was the win of SC Union El Biar over Stade de Reims (European Cup finalists the previous season!) in Toulouse, on February 3, 1957. Until 1957/58, the African clubs did not meet those from France itself (the Hèxagone) until the sixth round (the last round before the 1/32 finals, the stage at which the top level clubs entered); in 1958/59 and 1959/60, Algerian teams already played European ones in the fifth round.

Clubs from the French overseas regions (Départements d'Outre-Mer, abbreviated D.O.M., which legally have the same status as the departments in the Hèxagone, and Territoires d'Outre-Mer, abbreviated T.O.M., which have a more 'colonial' status) have entered the Coupe de France, the French domestic cup, since the 1961/62 season, when CS Moulien from Guadeloupe played a fifth round tie against FC Dieppe, losing 2-3.
The first club to win a tie were Golden Star from Martinique in 1974/75, who eliminated third level US Melun after a replay before losing 0-8 to OGC Nice.
So far, three overseas clubs have managed to survive two rounds: in 1988/89, ASC Geldar from Kourou in French Guyana eliminated EAC Chaumont and FC Sens before losing 0-11 on aggregate (over 2 legs) to top club FC Nantes; in 1994/95, SS Saint-Louisienne from Reunion threw SA Epinal and Chamois Niortais out of the cup before succumbing to top level side AS Cannes, and in 2008/09 SS Jeanne d'Arc, also from Reunion, eliminated Saint-Louis Neuweg and SC Feignies, and will host second level club Tours FC in round 9.
The 2007/08 cup was a particularly good one for the clubs from the Caribbean region: the 3 participants from French Guyana, Guadeloupe and Martinique all won their ties in the seventh (and first national) round; it was the first time ever this happened. However, all were eliminated in the eighth round.
Currently, the overseas clubs enter in the seventh round of the tournament (which is still far from the final - top level clubs do not enter until the ninth round, corresponding to the round of 64 (1/32 finals) and the cup final is the fourteenth round). In all regions, a knock-out tournament called Coupe de France (or Coupe de France régionale) is played (separately from the 'normal' cup tournament of the region) whose winners earn a tie against a club from the European continent.
Below all entrants from the French overseas regions are listed, as well as all the ties in which they were successful; additional information can be found in the file on D.O.M./T.O.M. Clubs in the Coupe de France.

For all clubs, seasons in which they survived one tie are given in italics, those in which they eliminated two clubs in bold face.

Algerian clubs in the French football structure

SC Union El Biar eliminated Stade de Reims (who had narrowly (3-4, after taking a 2-0 lead, and conceding the winning goal in the 79th minute) lost the 1955/56 European Cup final against Real Madrid!) in Toulouse, on February 3, 1957. Stade de Reims were the third club from France itself to fall to the pieds noirs that season, making SCUEB's run in the 1956/57 Coupe de France easily the best ever by any 'colonial' club in a European cup competition.

Below, all Algerian teams to have met European opposition from the 6th round (the second inter-ligues round, and the last before the 1/32 finals, at which stage the French top level clubs entered) onwards are listed; various clubs also played French clubs in the fifth rounds of 1958/59 (FC Oran - lost to SC Bastia) and 1959/60 (CAL Oran - lost to SC Draguignan; and ASPTT Constantine - lost to CA Montreuil after 2 replays). Prior to beating Red Star Alger in the 6th round 1959/60, AGS Mascara had already eliminated Stade Saint-Germain in the fifth round.

City name correspondence: 
colonial         current
Bône             Annaba

Cup

1955: 6th round: FC Blida                (0-5 vs UA Sedan-Torcy)
                 IS Mostaganem           (0-3 vs Stade Rennais)
                 Jeunesse Bône AC        (lost vs Stade Français)
1956: 6th round: Gallia Sports Alger     (0-1 vs Olympique Alès)
                 SC Bel-Abbès            (0-4 vs FC Nantes)
                 AS Saint Eugène Alger   (0-3 vs Stade Français)
1957: 6th round: SC Union El Biar        (2-0 vs SO Montpellier)
                 Gallia Sports Alger     (0-5 vs RCFC Besançon)
                 Gallia Club Oran        (1-3 aet vs FC Sète)
                 SC Bel-Abbès            (1-2 vs FC Nantes)
                 AS Batna                (1-4 aet vs SC Draguignan)
      1/32 fin.: SC Union El Biar        (1-1 aet, 1-0 vs AS Aix-en-Provence)
      1/16 fin.: SC Union El Biar        (2-0 vs Stade de Reims)
      1/8 final: SC Union El Biar        (0-4 vs Lille OSC)
1958: 6th round: Gallia Sports Alger     (2-1 vs CA Paris)
                 SC Bel-Abbès            (1-2 vs RC Strasbourg)
                 Racing Univ. Alger      (0-8 vs Stade Rennais)
                 IS Mostaganem           (1-7 vs SO Montpellier)
                 AS Bône                 (2-6 vs AS Cannes)
      1/32 fin.: Gallia Sports Alger     (1-1 aet, 0-1 vs Stade Rennais)
1959: 6th round: Olympique Hussein-Dey   (0-0 aet, 4-2 vs CO Roubaix-Tourcoing)
                 SC Bel-Abbès            (2-0 vs CA Paris)
                 Red Star Alger          (0-4 vs SC Toulon)
                 ROP Constantine         (0-2 vs FC Sète)
      1/32 fin.: Olympique Hussein-Dey   (1-2 vs RCFC Besançon)
                 SC Bel-Abbès            (0-1 aet vs Stade Rennais)
1960: 6th round: AGS Mascara             (1-0 vs Red Star Alger)
                 Red Star Alger          (0-1 vs AGS Mascara)
                 SC Bel-Abbès            (0-6 vs Olympique de Marseille)
                 AS Batna                (0-4 vs FC Grenoble)
                 AS Saint Eugène Alger   (1-5 vs FC Nancy)
      1/32 fin.: AGS Mascara             (0-1 vs AS Cannes)

French Guyanese clubs in the French football structure

Cup

37 entries, 5 wins

CSCC [Club Colonial] (Cayenne)       [9 entries, 2 wins]
entries:  1977/78, 1978/79, 1979/80, 1987/88, 1991/92,
          2000/01, 2006/07, 2007/08, 2008/09
won ties: 1977/78 CA Mantes           0-1 Club Colonial    [aet]          (rd 7)
          2007/08 Bastia CA           1-1 CSCC             [aet, 2-4 pen] (rd 7)

AS Saint-Georges (Cayenne)           [6 entries, 1 win]
entries:  1966/67, 1975/76, 1980/81, 1996/97, 1997/98,
          1999/00
won tie:  1980/81 AJ Saint-Georges    0-0 Véloce Vannes US [aet, 7-6 pen] (rd 7)

Sport Guyanais (Cayenne)             [5 entries]
entries:  1973/74, 1982/83, 1985/86, 1989/90, 1993/94

US Matoury                           [4 entries]
entries:  1998/99, 2001/02, 2003/04, 2005/06

ASC Le Geldar (Kourou)               [3 entries, 2 wins]
entries:  1983/84, 1988/89, 2002/03
won ties: 1988/89 ASC Le Geldar       1-1 EAC Chaumont     [aet, 5-4 pen] (rd 8)
                  FC Sens             1-2 ASC Le Geldar                   (rd 9)

US Macouria                          [2 entries]
entries:  1995/96, 2004/05

AS Jahouvey Mana                     [2 entries]
entries:  1986/87, 1992/93

USL Montjoly                         [2 entries]
entries:  1981/82, 1984/85

Olympique de Cayenne                 [2 entries]
entries:  1974/75, 1976/77

SC Kouroucien (Kourou)               [1 entry]
entry:    1990/91

US Sinnamary                         [1 entry]
entry:    1994/95

Guadeloupe clubs in the French football structure

Cup

37 entries, 6 wins

Etoile (Morne-à-l'Eau)               [9 entries, 2 wins]
entries:  1977/78, 1982/83, 1984/85, 1988/89, 1992/93,
          1994/95, 1996/97, 2000/01, 2003/04
won ties: 2000/01 AS Muret            0-2 Etoile                          (rd 7)
          2003/04 Etoile              2-2 US Romorantin    [aet, 4-2 pen] (rd 7)

CS Moulien (Moule)                   [6 entries, 2 wins]
entries:  1961/62, 1980/81, 1987/88, 2005/06, 2006/07,
          2007/08
won ties: 1980/81 AAJ Blois           1-2 CS Moulien                      (rd 7)
          2007/08 CS Moulien          0-0 Pacy-sur-Eure    [aet, 4-2 pen] (rd 7)

AS Red Star (Baie-Mahault)           [4 entries, 1 win]
entries:  1974/75, 1979/80, 1991/92, 1993/94
won tie:  1993/94 AS Red Star         1-0 La Roche-sur-Yon VF             (rd 7)

Cygne Noir (Basse-Terre)             [3 entries]
entries:  1972/73, 1981/82, 1983/84

Solidarité Scolaire (Pointe-à-Pitre) [3 entries]
entries:  1986/87, 1990/91, 1999/00

AS Dragon (Gosier)                   [2 entries]
entries:  2001/02, 2002/03

Evolucas (Lamentin)                  [2 entries]
entries:  2004/05, 2008/09

Juventus (Sainte-Anne)               [2 entries]
entries:  1964/65, 1973/74

La Gauloise (Basse-Terre)            [1 entry, 1 win]
entry:    1978/79
won ties: 1978/79 AS Poissy           0-1 La Gauloise                     (rd 7)

Arsenal Club (Petit-Bourg)           [1 entry]
entry:    1995/96

Equinoxe (Petit-Canal)               [1 entry]
entry:    1971/72

Phare (Petit-Canal)                  [1 entry]
entry:    1997/98

CS Saint-François                    [1 entry]
entry:    1985/86

US Baie-Mahault                      [1 entry]
entry:    1998/99

Martinique clubs in the French football structure

Cup

41 entries, 11 wins

Club Franciscain                     [9 entries, 6 wins]
entries:  1982/83, 1992/93, 1994/95, 1996/97, 1999/00,
          2000/01, 2002/03, 2003/04, 2005/06
won ties: 1982/83 Club Franciscain    2-1 Montpellier PSC                 (rd 7)
          1992/93 Club Franciscain    2-1 FC Bourges                      (rd 8)
          1994/95 Club Franciscain    2-1 ESA Brive                       (rd 7)
          1996/97 Club Franciscain    2-2 FC Trélissac     [aet, 4-3 pen] (rd 7)
          2002/03 Club Franciscain    2-1 Olympique Noisy-le-Sec          (rd 7)
          2005/06 SCO Angers          0-2 Club Franciscain                (rd 7)

Aiglon du Lamentin                   [4 entries]
entries:  1965/66, 1991/92, 2004/05, 2006/07

Golden Star (Fort-de-France)         [3 entries, 1 win]
entries:  1974/75, 1975/76, 1997/98
won tie:  1974/75 Golden Star    1-1, 2-1 US Melun                        (rd 7)

Club Colonial (Fort-de-France)       [3 entries]
entries:  1963/64, 1979/80, 1983/84

RC Rivière Pilote                    [3 entries]
entries:  1977/78, 1981/82, 2008/09

Samaritaine (Sainte-Marie)           [2 entries, 1 win]
entries:  1976/77, 2007/08
won tie:  2007/08 Sables d'Olonne     0-1 Samaritaine 

JA Trénelle (Fort-de-France)         [2 entries, 1 win]
entries:  1986/87, 1988/89
won tie:  1986/87 JA Trénelle         2-1 EA Guingamp                     (rd 8)

Excelsior (Fort-de-France)           [2 entries]
entries:  1984/85, 1990/91

CS Vauclinois                        [2 entries]
entries:  1968/69, 1969/70

Good Luck (Fort-de-France)           [1 entry, 1 win]
entry:    1978/79
won tie:  1978/79 Good Luck           3-1 UES Montmorillon                (rd 7)

Club Peléen (Morne Rouge)            [1 entry, 1 win]
entry:    1980/81)
won tie:  1980/81 Club Peléen         1-0 Stade Français                  (rd 7)

Assaut (Saint-Pierre)                [1 entry]
entry:    1985/86

CS Case Pilote                       [1 entry]
entry:    2001/02

Eclair (Rivière Salée)               [1 entry]
entry:    1998/99

La Gauloise (Trinité)                [1 entry]
entry:    1993/94

Olympique Marin                      [1 entry]
entry:    1973/74

RC Gros Morne                        [1 entry]
entry:    1987/88

Réal Tartane                         [1 entry]
entry:    1989/90

US Robert (Le Robert)                [1 entry]
entry:    1995/96

Stade Spiritain                      [1 entry]
entry:    1962/63

Mayotte clubs in the French football structure

From 1986 to 2000, clubs from Mayotte were allocated a place in the round of 32 of the Coupe de France Régionale in Reunion (from 1998 to 2000, 2 Mayotte clubs could enter). No Mayotte club ever reached the French Cup itself through this route. Since the 2001/02 season, the winners of the Coupe de France Régionale in Mayotte enter the seventh round of the French Cup directly.

Cup

8 entries

Foudre 2000                          [2 entries]
entries:  2007/08, 2008/09

FC M'tsapere                         [2 entries]
entries:  2001/02, 2004/05

Pamandzi SC                          [2 entries]
entries:  2002/03, 2003/04

AS Kani-Keli                         [1 entry]
entry:    2005/06

FCO de Tsingoni                      [1 entry]
entry:    2006/07

Mayotte clubs in the Reunion football structure

From 1986 to 1997, one Mayotte club entered the 1/16 finals of the Coupe de France Régionale in Reunion, the winners of which obtaining entry in the French Cup; from 1998 to 2000, two Mayotte clubs entered the 1/16 finals of this tournament. No Mayotte club ever managed to survive more than one round; below we list all known cases of Mayotte clubs eliminating opposition from Reunion. Since the 2001/02 season, Mayotte clubs can enter the French Cup directly.

Coupe de France Régionale

FC Kani-Bé
won tie:  1998    SS Dynamo           1-2 FC Kani-Bé   

FC M'tsapéré
won tie:  1995    FC M'tsapéré        bt  US Chaudron

Miracle du Sud 
won tie:  2000    SS Dynamo           lt  Miracle du Sud

Moroccan clubs in the French football structure

In addition to the two clubs listed below, RAC Casablanca (1954/55) and US Marocaine (1955/56) entered the 5th round (the first inter-ligue stage) once, but both were eliminated by other African clubs (RAC by FC Blida and USM by Gallia Sports Alger).

Cup

1955: 6th round: MAS Fès                 (0-9 vs RSO Audonien)
1956: 6th round: WAC Casablanca          (1-0 aet vs RCFC Besançon)
      1/32 fin.: WAC Casablanca          (1-2 aet vs AS Saint Etienne)

New Caledonian clubs in the French football structure

Cup

20 entries

US Magenta                           [7 entries]
entries:  1994/95, 2000/01, 2001/02, 2002/03, 2003/04,
          2004/05, 2005/06

CA Saint-Louis                       [4 entries]
entries:  1983/84, 1986/87, 1995/96, 1996/97

JS Traput (Lifou)                    [3 entries]
entries:  1997/98, 1998/99, 1999/00

JS Baco                              [1 entry]
entry:    2006/07

USL Gélima (Canala)                  [1 entry]
entry:    1982/83

AS Le Nickel (Nouméa)                [1 entry]
entry:    1975/76

AS Lössi                             [1 entry]
entry:    2007/08

AS Mont-Dore                         [1 entry]
entry:    2008/09

JS Vallée du Tir (Nouméa)            [1 entry]
entry:    1966/67

Reunion clubs in the French football structure

Cup

43 entries, 12 wins

CS Saint-Denis                       [7 entries, 1 win]
entries:  1975/76, 1980/81, 1982/83, 1983/84, 1985/86,
          1987/88, 1990/91
won tie:  1975/76 CS Saint-Denis      2-1 AS Libourne                     (rd 7)

US Bénédictine (Saint-Benoît)        [6 entries]
entries:  1965/66, 1966/67, 1968/69, 1969/70, 1972/73, 
          1981/82

SS Saint-Louisienne                  [5 entries, 4 wins]
entries:  1994/95, 1995/96, 1996/97, 1997/98, 2002/03
won ties: 1994/95 SA Epinal           1-3 SS Saint-Louisienne             (rd 7)
                  SS Saint-Louisienne 1-1 Chamois Niortais [aet, 4-2 pen] (rd 8)
          1995/96 SS Saint-Louisienne 1-0 La Roche-sur-Yon VF             (rd 7)
          1997/98 SS Saint-Louisienne 2-1 La Roche-sur-Yon VF             (rd 7)

JS Saint-Pierroise                   [5 entries, 2 wins]
entries:  1964/65, 1971/72, 1976/77, 1977/78, 1989/90
won ties: 1977/78 JS Saint-Pierroise  3-1 FC Yonnais                      (rd 7)
          1989/90 JS Saint-Pierroise  1-1 Le Mans UC 72    [aet]          (rd 8)

US Stade Tamponnaise (Le Tampon)     [4 entries, 1 win]
entries:  1992/93, 1998/99, 2003/04, 2006/07
won tie:  2006/07 Schiltigheim        0-7 US Stade Tamponnaise            (rd 7)

SS Jeanne d'Arc (Le Port)            [2 entries, 2 wins]
entries:  1999/00, 2008/09
won ties: 2008/09 Saint-Louis Neuweg  0-1 SS Jeanne d'Arc                 (rd 7)
                  SS Jeanne d'Arc     3-2 SC Feignies                     (rd 8)

SS Excelsior (Saint-Joseph)          [2 entries]
entries:  1974/75, 2001/02

FC Ouest Savanna (Saint-Paul)        [2 entries]
entries:  1984/85, 1988/89

AS Chaudron                          [1 entry, 1 win] 
entry:    2005/06
won tie:  2005/06 AS Chaudron         2-1 Vauban Strabourg [aet]          (rd 7)

US Possession                        [1 entry, 1 win]
entry:    1993/94
won tie:  1993/94 US Possession       2-1 SCO Roubaix      [aet]          (rd 7)

SS Gauloise (Bras-Panon)             [1 entry]
entries:  1991/92

AS Marsouins (Saint-Leu)             [1 entry]
entry:    2000/01

SS Patriote (Saint-Denis)            [1 entry]
entry:    1973/74

Saint-Denis FC                       [1 entry]
entry:    2004/05

SS Saint-Pauloise                    [1 entry]
entries:  1986/87

US Saint-Joseph                      [1 entry]
entry:    1978/79

US Sainte-Marie                      [1 entry]
entry:    2007/08

USSA Léopards (Sainte-Anne)          [1 entry]
entry:    1979/80

Tahitian clubs in the French football structure

32 entries, 4 wins

AS Pirae                            [10 entries]
entries: 1989/90, 1990/91, 1992/93, 1993/94, 1994/95,
         1996/97, 1998/99, 1999/00, 2000/01, 2002/03

AS Central Sport (Papeete)           [9 entries, 2 wins]
entries:  1974/75, 1976/77, 1977/78, 1978/79, 1979/80,
          1981/82, 1982/83, 1985/86, 1988/89
won ties: 1978/79 AS Central Sport    3-0 Arago Orléans                   (rd 7)
          1981/82 AS Central Sport    4-2 AS Béziers       [aet]          (rd 7)

AS Dragon                            [3 entries, 1 win]
entries:  1997/98, 2001/02, 2004/05
won tie:  2001/02 AS Dragon           2-1 FC Rouen                        (rd 7)

AS Tefana                            [3 entries, 1 win]
entries:  2006/07, 2007/08, 2008/09
won tie:  2008/09 SR Colmar           0-0 AS Tefana        [aet, 2-4 pen] (rd 7)

AS Manu Ura                          [2 entries]
entries:  2003/04, 2005/06

AS Vénus                             [2 entries]
entries:  1991/92, 1995/96

JS Arue                              [1 entry]
entry:    1980/81

AS Jeunes Tahitiens (Papeete)        [1 entry]
entry:    1987/88

AS Postes (Papeete)                  [1 entry]
entry:    1984/85

Tunisian clubs in the French football structure

In addition to the two clubs listed below, Stade Tunisien (1955/56) entered the 5th round (the first inter-ligue stage) once, but they were eliminated by another African club (SC Bel-Abbès).

Cup

1955: 6th round: CS Hammam Lif           (1-3 vs Havre AC)
1956: 6th round: Espérance ST            (2-2, 0-4 vs RSO Audonien)

Portugal

Angola | Cape Verde | Guinea Bissau | Mozambique

Between 1957 and independence, the Portuguese colonies in Africa were represented in the Portuguese Cup. This started in the 1957/58 season, when the champions of Angola and Mozambique entered an 'extra' semifinal against the winners (Benfica and Porto) of the cup semifinals in Portugal itself. Both lost heavily, but from then on clubs from the colonies had places reserved for them in the later stages of the Portuguese domestic cup (the quarterfinals from 1958/59 to 1966/67, the round of 16 from 1967/68 to 1970/71 and the round of 32 from 1971/72 until independence in the mid-seventies). Only once, a club from the colonies, Independente from Porto Alexandre (currently Tômbwa) in Angola managed to eliminate a team from Portugal itself.

Angolan clubs in the Portuguese football structure

In 1957/58, clubs from Angola and Mozambique obtained spots in an 'extra semifinal' round of the Portuguese cup, playing against the winners of the 'proper' semifinals, Porto and Benfica. Starting from 1958/59, one spot in the quarterfinals of the Portuguese cup was reserved for a representative from Mozambique (presumably after a playoff against an Angolan club, but the Mozambican clubs seem to have qualified each time). Starting from 1967/68, one spot in the round of 16 (1/8 finals) of the Portuguese cup was reserved for a representative from Angola. In the 1970/71 edition, Independente won their first tie, 1-0 against União Coimbra. This is the only ever success in a Portuguese cup tie by any team from Portugal's former African colonies. From 1971/72 on, Angolan teams entered one round earlier, in the round of 32 (1/16 finals). Angolan clubs, like those from the other African colonies, did not enter anymore after the 1973/74 season (places were still reserved for them in the following two seasons).

City name correspondences: 
colonial         current
Nova Lisboa      Huambo
Porto Alexandre  Tômbwa

Cup

1958: semifinal: Ferroviário Luanda      (2-6, 1-11 vs Benfica)
1968:   Angola did not enter club
1969: 1/8 final: Atlético Luanda         (0-4, 2-3 vs Benfica)
1970: 1/8 final: Independente P.A.       (0-4, 1-5 vs União Tomar)
1971: quarterf.: Independente P.A.       (0-6, 0-2 vs Benfica)
1972: 1/16 fin.: Independente P.A.       (1-2 vs Tirsense)
1973: 1/16 fin.: Benfica Nova Lisboa     (1-2 vs Atlético Lisboa)
1974: 1/16 fin.: FC do Moxico Luena      (0-6 vs CUF Barreiro)
NB: P.A. = Porto Alexandre

Cape Verdian clubs in the Portuguese football structure

Starting from 1970/71, one spot in the round of 16 (1/8 finals) of the Portuguese cup was reserved for (apparently) the winners of a playoff between a representative from Cape Verde (Cabo Verde) and one from Guinea Bissau. Possibly such a playoff regulation had existed before, but only in 1970/71 a club from Cape Verde made it into the main tournament, and immediately suffered the record defeat by any club from Portugal's former African colonies, which did not enter anymore after the 1973/74 season (places were still reserved for them in the following two seasons).

Cup

1971: 1/8 final: Mindelense              (0-21 vs Sporting)

Guinea Bissau clubs in the Portuguese football structure

Starting from 1964/65, one spot in the round of 16 (1/8 finals) of the Portuguese cup was reserved for a representative from Guinea Bissau (Guiné Bissau). From 1970/71 (but possibly already before), the representatives of Guinea Bissau apparently first had to play off against a club from Cape Verde (Cabo Verde) for this spot (only in 1970/71, Guinea Bissau did not qualify). From 1971/72 on, this club entered one round earlier, in the round of 32 (1/16 finals). One club from the region won a match, a 1-0 win by Tenis over Braga in the return leg of their 1/8 final tie in 1969/70, after suffering a 0-3 defeat in the first leg. It was the first ever win from a club from Portugal's former African colonies, which did not enter anymore after the 1973/74 season (places were still reserved for them in the following two seasons).

Cup

1965: 1/8 final: União Bissau            (0-4, 2-3 vs Olhanense)
1966:   Guinea Bissau did not enter club
1967: 1/8 final: Tenis Bissau            (0-6, 3-5 vs Beira-Mar)
1968:   Guinea Bissau did not enter club
1969: 1/8 final: União Bissau            (1-5, 0-12 vs Sporting)
1970: 1/8 final: Tenis Bissau            (0-3, 1-0 vs Braga)
1972: 1/16 fin.: Sporting Clube Bissau   (0-2 vs Sintrense)
1973: 1/16 fin.: União Bissau            (0-6 vs Farense)
1974: 1/16 fin.: Sporting Clube Bissau   (0-1 vs Oriental Lisboa)

Mozambican clubs in the Portuguese football structure

In 1957/58, clubs from Angola and Mozambique (Moçambique) obtained spots in an 'extra semifinal' round of the Portuguese cup, playing against the winners of the 'proper' semifinals, Porto and Benfica. Starting from 1958/59, one spot in the quarterfinals of the Portuguese cup was reserved for a representative from Mozambique (presumably after a playoff against an Angolan club, but the Mozambican clubs seem to have qualified each time); another was reserved for a club from the Azores (Açores), which are still part of Portugal, and whose clubs have meanwhile gained access to Portugal's top division. From 1964/65 on, the Mozambican club entered one round earlier, in the round of 16 (1/8 finals); from 1971/72 on, in the round of 32 (1/16 finals). In total, Mozambican clubs played 22 matches in the Portuguese cup, more than those from any other of Portugal's former African colonies (which did not enter anymore after the 1973/74 season, although places were still reserved for them in the following two seasons), and managed only one draw (after losing the first leg of the tie), and that not against a club from the mainland but a representative from the Azores.

City name correspondences: 
colonial         current
Lourenço Marques Maputo
Vila Pery        Chimoio

Cup

1958: semifinal: Desportivo L.Marques    (2-6, 1-9 vs Porto)
1959: quarterf.: Ferroviário L.Marques   (0-9, 0-7 vs Porto)
1960: quarterf.: Sporting Nampula(?)     (0-6, 0-3 vs Belenenses)
1961: quarterf.: Sporting L.Marques      (1-4, 1-4 vs Belenenses)
1962: quarterf.: Ferroviário L.Marques   (1-7, 1-7 vs Benfica)
1963: quarterf.: Sporting L.Marques      (1-3, 1-4 vs Sporting)
1964: quarterf.: Ferroviário L.Marques   (1-3, 2-2 vs Lusitânia (Açores))
1965:   Mozambique did not enter club
1966:   Mozambique did not enter club
1967:   Mozambique did not enter club
1968:   Mozambique did not enter club
1969: 1/8 final: Ferroviário L.Marques   (1-4, 0-1 vs Académica Coimbra)
1970: 1/8 final: Textafrica Vila Pery    (2-6, 0-3 vs Belenenses)
1971: 1/8 final: Ferroviário L.Marques   (1-4 vs Porto)
1972: 1/16 fin.: Textafrica Vila Pery    (1-3 vs Leixões)
1973: 1/16 fin.: Ferroviário L.Marques   (1-3 vs CUF Barreiro)
1974: 1/16 fin.: Textafrica Vila Pery    (0-1 vs Atlético Lisboa)

Spain

Moroccan clubs in the Spanish football structure

The northernmost regions of the current Morocco were a Spanish protectorate until 1956, when it merged with the French Protectorate to found the Kingdom of Morocco. Note that the clubs from the cities of Ceuta and Melilla, which still belong to Spain, are not included here.

Apart from the one-season appearance of Atlético Tetuán in the Primera División, who also once reached the quarterfinals of the Spanish cup, two other clubs from the region played at the second Spanish level: UD España from Tanger and EHA Tanger; the first of these two merged into UD España de Algeciras in 1956, while Atlético Tetuán split into a Moroccan side (Moghreb Tétouan) and a Spanish one (merging with SD Ceuta into Atlético Ceuta). Nothing is known about clubs from Sidi Ifni playing within the Spanish football structure.

Championship

Atlético Tetuán (1 top level season)
1951/52 16.Atlético Tetuán         30  7  5 18  51-85  19

Cup

1943: 1/16 fin.: Atlético Tetuán         (3-1, 0-3 vs Betis)
1951: quarterf.: Atlético Tetuán         (1-3, 1-4 vs Barcelona)

Russia

Poland | Ukraine

The Soviet Union 'inherited' most of its territory from the old Russian Empire, as assembled by the tsars. There were not many football competitions in this Empire extending beyond city boundaries, but in 1912 and 1913, national championships for city selections were played which involved a number of Ukrainian teams as well as a Polish one (which withdrew without playing). Odessa (Odesa in Ukrainian) even won the 1913 final but had their title taken away from them for playing with 4 foreigners (rather than the allowed 3); the title was not awarded. Note that the tournament was played in knock-out style.

Polish teams in the Russian football structure

Łódź entered the northern group of the 1913 city championship, which had 4 participants; they withdrew before playing their first round match against Sankt Peterburg.

City Selection Championship

1913: quarterf.: Łódź                    (forfeit vs Sankt Peterburg)

Ukrainian teams in the Russian football structure

Various Ukrainian cities entered the 1912 and 1913 Russian championships for city selections. Odessa (Odesa in Ukrainian) even won the 1913 final but had their title taken away from them for playing with 4 foreigners (rather than the allowed 3); the title was not awarded. Note that the tournament was played in knock-out style. The 1913 championship was split in a northern and a southern group, whose winners met in the final; all 7 Ukrainian participants played in the southern group (together with Rostov, who lost 1-5 to Yusovka (currently Donetsk) in the first round).

City Selection Championship

1912: semifinal: Odessa                  (withdrew)
1912: quarterf.: Kiev                    (forfeit vs Sankt Peterburg)
1912: quarterf.: Kharkov                 (1-6 vs Moskva)
1913: finalists: Odessa                  (4-2 vs Sankt Peterburg)
      NB: title not awarded as Odessa fielded too many foreigners
1913: semifinal: Kharkov                 (0-2 vs Odessa)
1913: quarterf.: Kherson                 (0-10 vs Odessa)
1913: quarterf.: Yusovka                 (1-2 vs Kharkov)
1913: 1/8 final: Nikolaev                (2-3 vs Odessa)
1913: 1/8 final: Kiev                    (forfeit vs Kharkov)
1913: 1/8 final: Sevastopol              (forfeit vs Kherson)

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